10-09-12 Justice Louis Brandeis on Criminal Conduct by Government // El juez Louis Brandeis en la Conducta Criminal por el Gobierno.

 Justice Louis Brandeis (in office: 1916-1939)

"In a government of laws," said Mr. Justice Brandeis, "existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its 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."
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 , at 469, 471