When government is a lawbreaker

Louis D Brendeis (center) in his Boston office in 1916

“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.”

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“[T]he only title in our democracy superior to that of President [is] the title of citizen.”

—Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941), Boston lawyer and civic reformer who was a U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1916-1939.