The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Potter StewartWe 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 StewartThe 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 StewartTo force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Potter Stewart