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Gerald Leonard Spence, connu sous le nom de Gerry Spence, né le 8 janvier 1929 à Laramie dans le Wyoming, est un avocat américain. Il est connu pour être l'avocat du père et des enfants de Karen Silkwood, pour lesquels il obtient des dommages à hauteur de 10,5 millions de dollars pour l'exposition à des radiations. Dans un procès civil, il obtient 52 millions de dollars de dommages contre McDonald's en faveur d'une petite entreprise familiale de glaces. Il a également défendu avec succès Randy Weaver alors qu'il était accusé de meurtre et de conspiration, sans appeler un seul témoin à la barre. Conférencier dans de nombreuses écoles de droit, il écrit de nombreux ouvrages et devient consultant pour de nombreuses chaînes de télévision américaines. Wikipedia

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Gerry Spence: Citations en anglais

“Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 192

“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.”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 71

“The stain of prejudice is often indelible.”

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Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 92

“How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 199

“Those whose minds are jammed with prejudice have room for little else. Growth is dead. Learning is gridlocked. They may understand our logic, but logic makes no difference. The word root of prejudice, praejudicium, implies prejudgment. People are prejudiced both for and against a philosophy, a religion, a belief system. They are prejudiced for or against a political party, the make of an automobile, a race, a person — you name it.”

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Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 74

“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.”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 79

“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 government serves them.”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 1 : We, the People, the New American Slaves, p. 8

“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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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 9 : Empowering the Self, p. 117

“My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.”

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Our Cry for Liberty, p. xv
Give Me Liberty! (1998)

“There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 15 : Black and White Together, p. 168

“What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.”

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As quoted in Humanscape : Environments for People (1987), by Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, p. 97

“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.”

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Source: From Freedom to Slavery (1996), Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 91

“Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.”

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Getting Started, p. 5
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

“Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.”

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Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 89

“When we come before the school board, most often we do not face those interested in the education of our children, but those interested in the maintenance of power. These contests are war. Any other paradigm is an illusion. It is not a mere contest, like athletes plunging down the hill on skis for the fastest time. It is not a dance in which the most graceful will be rewarded with a medal. This is war. Once we understand that the struggle is war, we can wage war and win.
The key to winning any war is to control the war. This does not mean I seek to control my opponent.”

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Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 12 The Unbeatable Power Argument : Delivering the Knockout p. 196

“Corporations do not make up this country, people do.”

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As quoted in "Gerry Spence, Attorney At Lore" by Thomas Heath, in The Washington Post (6 September 1995) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/09/06/gerry-spence-attorney-at-lore/1bee185b-af93-4bf3-bb46-4a4ed728c196/

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