Potter Stewart Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Potter Stewart:

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#0544f1ee

Fairness is what justice really is.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#f53b7dbf

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#50e7c059

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#b3b8b983

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#885767e6

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#bb534e5f

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#7bdd0fbb

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#4d6c833b

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#6a689d1a

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#2615ba02

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#d2341156

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
~Potter Stewart


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/potter-stewart-quotes/#c2bf669d

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