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About Gerry Spence
Gerald Leonard Spence (January 8, 1929 – August 13, 2025) was an American lawyer and writer.
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“We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.”
“Corporations do not make up this country, people do.”
“Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.”
“How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?”
“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.”
“There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.”
“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.”
“If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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Gerry Spence on Lawsuit
“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.”
About Gerry Spence
Gerald Leonard Spence (January 8, 1929 – August 13, 2025) was an American lawyer and writer.