Quotes By Potter Stewart
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
Potter Stewart
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Potter Stewart
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
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
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Potter Stewart
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Potter Stewart