Potter Stewart Quotes

"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
(Related: Cause)

"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Constitution)

"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: People, Rights, Property)

"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."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Home, History, Rights, Man)

"Swift justice demands more than just swiftness."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Justice)

"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Fact, Liberty, Property, Right)

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Today)

"Fairness is what justice really is."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Justice)

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Difference, Ethics, Right)

"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Life, Medical, Abortion, Potential)

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Society, Censorship, Confidence)