Gerry Spence Quotes - Page 3

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• Words that do not create images should be discarded.

  Gerry Spence

  Should, Discarded

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• 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 !

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Children, Successful

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.244, Macmillan

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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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  Perfect, Mind, Slavery

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.149, Macmillan

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• We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.

  Gerry Spence

  School, Law, People

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• To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

  Gerry Spence

  Children, Goal, Doe

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• 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.

  Gerry Spence

  Dream, Men, Voice

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.300, Macmillan

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

  Gerry Spence

  Successful, Argument, Source

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

  Gerry Spence

  Accepting, Enterprise, Articles

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

  Gerry Spence

  Children, Perfect, Soul

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Government, Ideas

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• The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

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  Prejudice, Stains, Indelible

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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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.

  Gerry Spence

  Rights, People, Firsts

  Gerry Spence (1986). “Trial by fire: the true story of a woman's ordeal at the hands of the law”, William Morrow & Co

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• Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.

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  Doe, Needs, Want

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.

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  Powerful, Attitude, Independent

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.223, St. Martin's Press

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

  Gerry Spence

  Party, Communication, Successful

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• Without argument the species would parish.

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  Argument, Species, Parish

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

  Gerry Spence

  Bankers, Clients, Wells

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• Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

  Gerry Spence

  Needs, Dose

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.241, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gerry Spence

  Car, Loan, Drivers

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.98, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Party, People

  "From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.

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• I love my life and I am so blessed.

  Gerry Spence

  Blessed, Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

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