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

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

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

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

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Medical
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History
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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History

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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History
[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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History

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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History

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one. – Proverb

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Friends

A lunatic may be – Edgar Allan Poe

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Sanity

Its not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money arent the purpose of all this. No actors going to say, I dont want to be famous. But the main purpose for doing what Im doing is the passion in the work. – Christopher Lambert

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famous

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Conflict