Logo
Quote by Potter Stewart
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long h

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

Other quotes by Potter Stewart

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. – Potter Stewart

Category:
Medical
Author
Potter Stewart
Read Quote

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart

Category:
Property
Author
Potter Stewart
Read Quote

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. – Potter Stewart

Category:
legal
Author
Potter Stewart
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

Category:
History

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. – Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Category:
History

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
History

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

Category:
History

Random Quotes

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. – Christian Nestell Bovee

Category:
Beauty

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. – James Cameron

Category:
Science

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emersons 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic – Daniel J. Boorstin

Category:
Charisma

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. – George Whitefield

Category:
Peace