The Spy Files
Kenneth Eade
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.”
“Nobody in the government is talking. They say it’s a case of national security.”
“We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.”
“The most innocent man’s words will be used against him.”
“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?”
“His sense of “justice” had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement; a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence.”
“Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.”
“Brent never trusted anyone who couldn’t look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.”
“Brent knew the first cardinal rule of talking to cops – don’t.”
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