The right to enjoy property without unla... by Potter Stewart

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The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a 'personal' right.

- Potter Stewart

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Society

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

- Potter Stewart

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.

- Potter Stewart

When everything is classified, then nothing is classified and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion.

- Potter Stewart

Fact Right

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

- Potter Stewart

People

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

- Potter Stewart

Cause

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

- Potter Stewart

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