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.

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.