Author: Stephen Carter

Cites

• Siegbert Tarrasch (1)
  • IN: Emperor of Ocean Park (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non! (Loosely: Two fools always win, but three fools, never!) (Note: The chess piece Americans call the bishop, the French call le fou.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Abraham Lincoln (1)
  • IN: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I conceive that I may in an emergency do things on military grounds which cannot be done constitutionally by Congress.
    FROM: NULL, (1864), NULL, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mr. Lincoln has four long years of strife before him and as he seems little inclined to change his advisers, his course of action, or his generals, we do not believe that the termination of his second period of government will find him President of the United States.
    FROM: London Gazette, (1864), Article, UK
  • IN: New England White (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why does everybody pick on the economists? They've correctly predicted thirteen of the past five recessions!
    FROM: Familiar campus joke, (None), Speech, NULL
• Leon (attributed incorrectly) Trotsky (1)
  • IN: Back Channel (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
    FROM: NULL, (1919), Speech, Russia
• Eloise Bibb (1)
  • IN: Palace Council (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O, that the years had language!
    FROM: Judith, (1895), Poem, US
• St. Thomas Aquinas (1)
  • IN: The Dissent of the Governed (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The force of a law depends on the extent of its justice.
    FROM: The Dissent of the Governed (Summa Theologica), (1485), Book, Italy
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Jericho's Fall (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stoof a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
    FROM: Joshua 5:13, (-165), Bible, NULL