The right to defy an unconstitutional st... by Potter Stewart

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The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

- Potter Stewart

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The Fourth 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

Constitution

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

- Potter Stewart

Justice

Fairness is what justice really is.

- Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

- Potter Stewart

Fact Right

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

- Potter Stewart

Force

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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