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

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legal
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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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Other Quotes from
Property
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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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Property

To be upset over what you dont have is to waste what you do have. – Ken Keyes Jr.

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Property

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917

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Property

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

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Property

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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasnt stolen. – Imelda Marcos

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