Stephen L. Carter

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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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Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance

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Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions

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In a crisis, time was always the enemy

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It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine