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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Property
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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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Property

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind – Albert Einstein

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Property

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Property

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Property

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