...than that the Government should play an ignoble part." This echoes the words of Justice Brandeis that "If the Government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law: It invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." A third count in the indictment of Government enforcement...

...subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen." Crime is contagious, he said, and "if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Justice Brar.deis declared that in the administration...

...Government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. * * * Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for laws ; it invites every man to become a law unto himself ; it invites anarchy (ibid., at p. 485). In...

...laws, existence of the Government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher....becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law, it invties every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the admin•...

...laws, existence of the Government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher....for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example, ('rime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law, it invties...

...laws, existence of the Government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it H'aches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Gov'•rnment becomes a lawbreaker,...

...situation come about? In his dissent in (Hmsttod v. Umttd States,1' Mr. Justice Brandeis warned that "(o]ur Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher....example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself. . . ."u...

...to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime...breeds contempt for law ; it invites every man to become a law unto himself ; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal...

...As Mr. Justice Brandeis, dissenting, said in Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 438, 485 (1928): "Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher....for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. ... If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become...

...what Mr. Justice Brandeis said about wiretapping as a law enforcement device 30 years age when he said if the Government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law. It invites every man to become a law onto himself. It invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal...