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.

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

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

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Fairness is what justice really is.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

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

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

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

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

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.