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It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
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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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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Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
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I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.
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You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
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I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
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My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
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I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.
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I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
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I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.
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I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
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There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
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I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.
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In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.
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The best answer to bad speech is good speech
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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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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do.
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The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
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