Kenneth Eade Quotes - Page 2

Unless we do something and do it quickly, we may be going back to an economic stone age.

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

Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good.

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.

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

War is hot, not cold.

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

There is no room for emotion in business.

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?

He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that decision was just depended on your point of view. The winner usually thought it was a just result: The loser bore the consequences.

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.

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

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

It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.

No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.

If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.

The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.

You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you

Man is the only predator who hunts his own.

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.

Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say.

The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.

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

Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option.

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked,” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.

Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.

It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.

Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.

Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.

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

Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They’re going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?

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.

This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

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.

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

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

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

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

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction

You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.

Sometimes one man must fight for what he feels is right, even against the majority. Something that is wrong does not change to right just because the majority approves it, ignores it, or the government says it is right. It is still wrong.

Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.

I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.