Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might… — Potter Stewart Copy Share
The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately… — Potter Stewart Copy Share
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to… — Potter Stewart Copy Share
“For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and… — Potter Stewart Copy Share
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. — Potter Stewart Copy Share
We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in… — Potter Stewart Copy Share
