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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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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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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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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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Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isnt the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. – Lewis H. Lapham

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? – Erich Fromm

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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