To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Potter StewartAbortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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 StewartThe dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
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