11 Quotes by Potter Stewart

• To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
• A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
• It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
• The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
• 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.
• Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
• In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
• I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
• Fairness is what justice really is.
• Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
• Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

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