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Gerry Spence

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Quotes by Gerry Spence

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave’s own power.
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Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave’s own power.
In any nation in which people’s rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
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In any nation in which people’s rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
Is there anyone I wouldn’t take as a client? Well, I’d never represent a banker.
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Is there anyone I wouldn’t take as a client? Well, I’d never represent a banker.
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument – ourselves.
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We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument – ourselves.
To bargain freedom for security is the devil’s bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
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To bargain freedom for security is the devil’s bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
To freely bloom – that is my definition of success.
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To freely bloom – that is my definition of success.
The less of one’s life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
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The less of one’s life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
Fear is like a pack of dogs – it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured.
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Fear is like a pack of dogs – it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured.
The erosion of a nation’s concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
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The erosion of a nation’s concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you’re explaining and defending, you’re losing.
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The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you’re explaining and defending, you’re losing.
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