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Alan Dershowitz is a renowned American lawyer, author, and scholar, born on September 1, 1938. He is highly respected in the legal community and has served as a professor at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz has been involved in several high-profile cases as a defense attorney.

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Famous Alan Dershowitz Quotes

“But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It is our home as well as theirs. And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the First Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution.”

“When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews, a religious group. But if the religious group is the subject of the persecution based on their religion, it's perfectly OK for a First Amendment-bound society to emphasize their rescue, just as it is perfectly OK to emphasize the fact that many, if not all of the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism, come from countries with a history of supporting terrorism.”

“Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.”

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Book:Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

“Question authority; but, raise your hand first.”

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Book:Chutzpah

Source: Chutzpah

“Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“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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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz