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I Think All Of Our Human Experience Shows That No One With Absolute Power Can Be Trusted To Give It Up Even In Part

Experience Should Teach Us To Be Most On Our Guard To Protect Liberty When The Government's Purposes Are Beneficent. Men Born To Freedom Are Naturally Alert To Repel Invasion Of Their Liberty By Evil-minded Rulers. The Greatest Dangers To Liberty Lurk In The Insidious Encroachment By Men Of Zeal, Well Meaning But Without Understanding.

People Fear Witches, And Burn Women.

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.

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.