The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Potter StewartFor 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 StewartCensorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter StewartFor me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
Potter Stewart