Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. — 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 Image
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 Image
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
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 Image
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion." [ New York Times Co. v. United States , 403 U.S. 713 (1971) (concurring)]” quote by Potter Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e80/potter-stewart-22133_freedom_for-when-everything-is-classified-then-n_1634570.jpg)
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