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Gerald Leonard "Gerry" Spence (born January 8, 1929) is a semi-retired American trial lawyer. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. Spence has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney. He has not lost a civil case since 1969.

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We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

Afraid, Argument, Fear, Source, Successful

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

Indelible, Prejudice, Stain, Stains

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 has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

Edges, Give, Government, People, Sheep

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.

Children, Wings, Role Models, Coated, Delight, Persons

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 and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.

Deprive, God, Life And Death, Religion, Soul, Transcends

Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. . . . Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.

Become, Kings, Parties, Party, People, Today

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Lovable, Love, Love Is, Shows, Toward

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, even though there is no chance to win.

Faced, Justice, Prejudice, Win, Winning

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.

Doors, Father, Freedom, Like, Next, Slip

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Enjoy, Exchange, Freedom, May, Money

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

Bankers, Clients, Wells, Take, Banker, Represent

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

Argument, Communication, Parties, Party, Successful

As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

Banks, Car, Cars, Down, Drivers, Loan

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.

Advancement, Embedded, Goal, Government, System

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

Disproportionate, Dose, Doses, Enslaves, Needs

No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. . . . Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again. " Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !

Children, Match, Mother, Success, Successful, World

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Belief, Closed, Faith, Life, Opened, Religious

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 gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

Adventure, Death, Fantasy, Realms, Rope

Our prejudices :;we all have them are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

Color, Lying, Ooze, Slowly, Thinking

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.

Firsts, Institution, People, Rights, Subordinated, Totalitarian

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