Potter Stewart Quotes

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness. - Potter Stewart

Fairness is what justice really is. - Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. - Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. - Potter Stewart

At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a freeman means at least this much, then the 13th Amendment made a promise it cannot keep. - Potter Stewart

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. - Potter Stewart

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

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