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Potter Stewart

"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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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."
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"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
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"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
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"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
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"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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