Louis D. Brandeis Quotes About Criminal Law
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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. 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.
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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Louis D. Brandeis
- Born: November 13, 1856
- Died: October 5, 1941
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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