May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different?… — Potter Stewart Asks 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… — Potter Stewart Agree Copy Share Image
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. — Potter Stewart Between Copy Share Image
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. — Potter Stewart Believe 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 Death 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 Constitution 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… — Potter Stewart Capital punishment 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 Dichotomy 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… — Potter Stewart History 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… — Potter Stewart Freedom Copy Share Image
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart Censorship 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… — Potter Stewart Accounts Copy Share Image
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. — Potter Stewart Ethics Copy Share Image
We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that… — Potter Stewart Acceptance Copy Share Image
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free… — Potter Stewart Amendments Copy Share Image
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness. — Potter Stewart Forgotten Copy Share Image
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. — Potter Stewart Abortion Copy Share Image
For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or… — Potter Stewart Amendments Copy Share Image
Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a… — Potter Stewart Newspapers Copy Share Image
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. — Potter Stewart Activity Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Constitution Copy Share Image
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. — Potter Stewart Attempt Copy Share Image
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),… — Potter Stewart Cases Copy Share Image
