Potter Stewart Quotes

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. - Potter Stewart

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. - Potter Stewart

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. - 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. - 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 retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. - Potter Stewart

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. - Potter Stewart

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . . - Potter Stewart

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. - Potter Stewart

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. - Potter Stewart

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