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George Kanyeihamba Quotes

1939–2025 Uganda

George Wilson Kanyeihamba (11 August 1939 – 14 July 2025) was a Ugandan author, politician, and judge who was a cabinet minister and member of parliament. He was also a chair of the Legal Committee of the Constituent Assembly that made the 1995 Constitution.

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You cannot be a good lawyer if you do not understand the people you serve.

The media should not be intimidated. Whenever people threaten you, it means you are doing a good job exposing their weaknesses and ferocity.

The principles that govern law should be that the interests of the client must count more than any other consideration within the law—except the lawyer’s own integrity.

Keep learning. It is only the fool who says: the less I know, the more I understand.

But law does not begin at birth, nor does it end at death. It safeguards the unborn. It respects the dead. It regulates eternity in both directions.

No one can live a full life alone, as a hermit in a desert,” he reminded us. “And no one can live outside the reach of law, for even solitude is subject to the law of silence.

When a country reaches a stage where only the bad people, or those who condone or ignore wrongdoers, are the ones who speak and prosper and the good people are silent, that country becomes a failed state”.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Kanyeihamba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.