Quotes by Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Abortion

Different

Medical

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

Censorship In Books

Freedom Of Speech

Society

Fairness is what justice really is.

Fairness

Justice

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

Forgotten

Sunday

Togetherness

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Kind

Obscenity

Succeed

I think that the Court’s task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ‘ wall of separation,’ a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

Christian

Religious

Wall

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

Constitution

Remembered

Unreasonable

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Citizens

May

Unattractive

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Demand

Justice

Swiftness

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

May

Poor

Today

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May

Medical

Men

Needs

Obscenity

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Powerful

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Succeed

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Quotes by Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

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

Fairness is what justice really is.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

I think that the Court’s task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ‘ wall of separation,’ a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

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

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

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