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I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
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I learn from experience.
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When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
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I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.
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In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
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That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.
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The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
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Question authority but, raise your hand first.
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Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
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If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.
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The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.
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Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
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Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.
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The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.
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The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
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The law is agnostic about truth.
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Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
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What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?
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I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
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I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
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