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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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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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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison

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Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. – Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896

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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, “Get the hell off my property.” – Joan Rivers

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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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