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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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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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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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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. – William Blackstone

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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. – William Penn

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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. – John Locke

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Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments…. It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. – Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844

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