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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thinking, Government, Play
Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.