Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence
Gerald Leonard "Gerry" Spenceis a semi-retired American trial lawyer. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. As of 2014, Spence has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney. He has not lost a civil case since 1969...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth8 January 1929
CityLaramie, WY
CountryUnited States of America
prejudice scar argument
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
self given incomparable
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
done insurance-companies company
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
government goal slavery
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 slavery.
dream men voice
I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.
quests slavery today
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
father doors next
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.
may enjoy
The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
law justice function
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.
art arguing argument
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.
perfect mind slavery
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.
unjust-society appreciate justice
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.
ideas america long
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.
devil made enjoy
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.