Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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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
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.”
“Fairness is what justice really is.”
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.”
“In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.”
“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.”
“The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.”
“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”
“These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.”
“Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .”