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Gerry Spence
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Quotes by Gerry Spence
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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.
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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.
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We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument – ourselves.
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To bargain freedom for security is the devil’s bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
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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.
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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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The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you’re explaining and defending, you’re losing.
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