SLStephen L. Carter

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Stephen L. Carter

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Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

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02Undated

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

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03Undated

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

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04Undated

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

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05Undated

Being on the inside could be an addiction

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06Undated

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

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07Undated

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

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08Undated

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.

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09Undated

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

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10Undated

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

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He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

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12Undated

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

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13Undated

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

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14Undated

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

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15Undated

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

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16Undated

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

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17Undated

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

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18Undated

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

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19Undated

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

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20Undated

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

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21Undated

Better to wait actively than passively.

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22Undated

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

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The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

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This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

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