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

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

Category:
legal
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Property
category

The more we have the less we own. – Meister Eckhart

Category:
Property

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

Category:
Property

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends – the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. – Andrew Carnegie

Category:
Property

What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Category:
Property

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard

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Happiness

Listen once in a while. Its amazing what you can hear. – Russell Baker

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amazing

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Time

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Nature