Quotes from Potter Stewart

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

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

I shall not today attempt further to define [pornography]… But I know it when I see it; and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

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.

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

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

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

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

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

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

Fairness is what justice really is.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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