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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.

~Alan Dershowitz

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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.

~Alan Dershowitz

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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.

~Alan Dershowitz

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Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

~Alan Dershowitz

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I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

~Alan Dershowitz

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I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

~Alan Dershowitz

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I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

~Alan Dershowitz

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I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

~Alan Dershowitz

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I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

~Alan Dershowitz

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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.

~Alan Dershowitz

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: September 1st, 1938

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