Kenneth Eade Quotes

The power to kill does not come without responsibility

How one tragedy affects so many others.

Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.

He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.

When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law.

Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

Patrick Henry said ‘give me liberty or give me death.’ I think his famous quote makes it crystal clear that the Constitutional framework of this country values liberty as an essential element of life, worth dying for. If something is worth such a sacrifice, how can the loss of it be justified for the argument that it will make us safer to give up our liberty and our civil rights? Are we to tell the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of all the soldiers lost in foreign wars that it was all a big lie? That they died for nothing?

Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.

Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest.

Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.

It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.

Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.

Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?