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Quote by Potter Stewart
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a

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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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

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History
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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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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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If a man owns land, the land owns him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. – Herbert Spencer

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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. – Sigmund Freud

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