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…
• To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
• 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…
• How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
• Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
• 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…
• When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in…
• 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…
• 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…
• The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead…
• I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all…
• My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
• We are defined by how we use our power.
• The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
• When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the…
• Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
• 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…
• The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
• 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…
• The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King…

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