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They [the makers of the Constitution] conferred, as against
the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by
civilized men. --Justice Louis D. Brandeis dissenting, Olmstead et al. v. United States
277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928)
If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it 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 law the end justifies the means -- to declare that the
Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal -- would bring terrible retributions.
--Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead et al. v. United States, 277 U.S. at 485 (1928)
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