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Fairness is what justice really is.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Legal
Fairness
Justice
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Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Demand
Justice
Swiftness
Demands
Swift
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Confidence
Society
Censorship
Itself
Lack
Reflects
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Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Legal
Differences
Ethics
Knowing
Between
You
Difference
Right
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I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Kind
Obscenity
Today
Attempt
Define
Further
Material
Shall
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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Leadership
Legal
Believe
Law
Lawyer
Defendant
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Society
Censorship In Books
Freedom Of Speech
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These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Lightning
Unusual
Way
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
May
Poor
Today
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In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Facts
Fundamentals
Interdependence
Liberty
Exists
Fundamental
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For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Forgotten
Sunday
Togetherness
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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Dichotomy
Growth
People
Property
Property Rights
Rights
False
Liberties
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It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Constitution
Remembered
Unreasonable
Searches
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Activity
Criminals
Doe
Giving
Mere
Rise
Criminal
Independently
Probable
Search
Suspected
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Medical
Abortion
Termination
Inherently
Involves
Procedure
Purposeful
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Medical
Abortion
Different
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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.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Acceptance
Law
Powerful
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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.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Truth
Law
Speaks Out
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
History
Home
Men
Core
Intrusion
Retreat
Rights
Unreasonable
Free
Amendment
Long History
Personal
Stands
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I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Religious
Wall
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The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Liberty
Needs
Speech
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Arrogant
Independent
Strong
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May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Citizens
May
Unattractive
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I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Kind
Obscenity
Succeed
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We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Murder
Punishment
Taken
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For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Home
Office
People
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The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Expression
Writing
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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."
Potter Stewart / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Practice
Race
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