Alan Dershowitz Quotes

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• I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating…
• Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right…
• Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom…
• Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too…
• Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
• I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry…
• The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
• Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history;…
• Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other…
• Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who…
• Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
• There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.
• This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.
• Question authority; but, raise your hand first.
• A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
• The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
• All religions and cultures suffer from sources that preach hate against the 'other.' Throughout history some have, tragically, practiced what their sources preached, while some…
• I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those…
• The best answer to bad speech is good speech
• Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others…

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