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> [Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/swift-justice-demands-more-than-just-swiftness/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

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## More by Potter Stewart

> [May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/may-the-state-fence-in-the-harmless-mentally-ill-solely-to-save-its/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/the-court-today-holds-the-congress-may-say-that-some-of-the-poor-are/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/in-fact-a-fundamental-interdependence-exists-between-the-personal/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/to-force-a-lawyer-on-a-defendant-can-only-lead-him-to-believe-that/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [Fairness is what justice really is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/fairness-is-what-justice-really-is/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/these-death-sentences-are-cruel-and-unusual-in-the-same-way-that/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/it-must-always-be-remembered-that-what-the-constitution-forbids-is/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/we-are-concerned-here-only-with-the-imposition-of-capital-punishment/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/the-dichotomy-between-personal-liberties-and-property-rights-is-a/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/the-4th-amendment-and-the-personal-rights-it-secures-have-a-long/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [“For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/for-when-everything-is-classified-then-nothing-is-classified-and-the/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/censorship-reflects-a-society-s-lack-of-confidence-in-itself-it-is-a/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [ The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious \[repugnant\] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/the-equal-protection-standard-of-the-constitution-has-one-clear-and/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/ethics-is-knowing-the-difference-between-what-you-have-a-right-to-do/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

> [We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/potter-stewart/we-dedicated-ourselves-to-a-powerful-idea-organic-law-rather-than/)

[Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/potter-stewart/)

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