Quotes By Potter Stewart

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

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

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

Fairness is what justice really is.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.