Potter Stewart

Quotes by Potter Stewart

 

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Potter Stewart

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

Potter Stewart

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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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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Arthur C. Brooks

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