Hugh Kennedy (11 July 1879 – 1 December 1936) was the only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland and the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State, and later the first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. As a member of the Irish Free State Constitution Commission, he was also one of the constitutional architects of the Irish Free State. He was also elected to the 4th Dáil.
Read more about Hugh Kennedy: Early Life, Attorney-General, By-election, Chief Justice
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“Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive
Officiously to keep alive.”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)