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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Property
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Property

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. – Maria Edgeworth

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Property

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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Property

I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. – Trinidad Hunt

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Property

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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. – Ted Turner

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motivational

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. – Herbert Hoover

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Government

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. – Italian Proverb

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Equality