Gerry Spence Quotes

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• Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

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  Sheep, Government, Giving

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• . . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.

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  Tyrants, America, People

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

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  Honesty, Passion, Fighting

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• A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

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  Rights, Tyrants, Promise

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan

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• Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.

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  Three, Rats, Lawyer

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• There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

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  Race, Color, Two

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.211, Macmillan

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• The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

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  Law, Justice, Function

  "From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.

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• Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

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  World, Opponents, Surrender

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• The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

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  Rights, Erosion, Individual

  Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown

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• My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

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  May, Realizing, Telling The Truth

  "Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, 1998.

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• The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

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  Hurt, Eye, Liberty

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.19, Macmillan

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• The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

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  Unjust Society, People, Appreciate

  Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown

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• Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

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  Father, Doors, Next

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

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  Pain, Men, Liberty

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• The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

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  Art, Arguing, Argument

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• The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.

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  Religious, Godly, Men

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.

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  Children, Wings, Role Models

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.202, St. Martin's Press

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• Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.

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  Life And Death, Soul, Religion

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.46, Macmillan

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• To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

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  Government, People, Together

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

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  Acceptance, Self, Kingdoms

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• Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

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  Lying, Thinking, Color

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

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  Flow, Concerned, Right Words

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

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  Book, School, Doctors

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