Potter Stewart Quotes

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.

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

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.

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