Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
- Potter Stewart
Legal, Right, Difference, Knowing
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
Own, Amendment, Very, Intrusion
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
- Potter Stewart
Medical, Other, Termination, Purposeful
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
- Potter Stewart
Liberty, Fact, Property, Interdependence
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
- Potter Stewart
Law, Legal, Against, Defendant
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
Give, Activity, Suspected, Criminal
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
- Potter Stewart
Confidence, Society, Itself, Reflects
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
- Potter Stewart
Remembered, Always, Searches, Unreasonable
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
- Potter Stewart
Justice, More, Than, Swift
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
- Potter Stewart
Today, See, Material, Further
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
- Potter Stewart
Rights, Liberties, Does, Dichotomy
Fairness is what justice really is.
- Potter Stewart
Legal, Fairness, Really, Justice
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