Potter Stewart Quotes
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
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.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.