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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. – Potter Stewart

Other quotes by Potter Stewart

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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Property
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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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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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Other Quotes from
legal
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I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. Its impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. – Alan Dershowitz

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legal

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. – Tom Tancredo

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legal

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it. – Martin Bashir

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legal

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bushs 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. – John Yoo

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legal

Random Quotes

I think theres no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. – James Laughlin

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Poetry

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. – Vladimir Nabokov, 1951

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Psychology

The poor are poor because the rich are rich. – Author Unknown

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Poverty

Something that irritates you and wont let you go. Thats the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. – Source Unknown

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Endurance