The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Potter StewartThe Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.
Potter StewartIt must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
Potter StewartFor me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
Potter StewartAbortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter StewartI 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