| Irving Fisher, Herbert Bruce Brougham - 1928 - 398 pages
...zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. " Justice Holmes in his dissenting opinion remarked, "We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less...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... | |
| 1931 - 490 pages
...pay for other crimes, when they are the means by which the evidence is to be obtained. I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part" - Olmstead vs. US in wire-tapping case. "There is nothing I more deprecate than the use of the 14th... | |
| 1928 - 298 pages
...an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. ... It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1937 - 1296 pages
...ought not to use evidence obtained, and only obtainable, by a criminal act. ... I think it a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." And now listen to the words of Justice Brandeis: . . . "Heretofore, force and violence were the only... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1938 - 1270 pages
...ought not to use evidence obtained, and only obtainable, by a criminal act. ... I think it a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." Voice And now listen to the words of Justice Brandeis: . . . mdeis - "Heretofore, force and violence... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1941 - 494 pages
...desirable that the Government should not itself foster and pay for other crimes, when they are the meaus by which the evidence is to be obtained. * * » We...than that the Government should play an ignoble part (277 US 438, 470,471). Justice Holmes referred to wire tapping as "such dirty business * * * such iniquities."... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 388 pages
...life that his years in the Army of the Potomac taught him that led Mr. Justice Holmes to deem it ,n less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part.' Olmstead v. Cnited States, supra, at 470. "* * * My deepest feeling against giving legal sanction to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 388 pages
...life that his years in the Army of the Potomac taught him that led Mr. Justice Holmes to deem it .» less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part.' Olmstead v. United States, supra, at 470. "• * * My deepest feeling against giving legal sanction... | |
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