The Us States Are Our Laboratories Of

The Progress Of Science In Furnishing The Government With Means Of Espionage Is Not Likely To Stop With Wire Tapping. Ways May Some Day Be Developed By Which The Government, Without Removing Papers From Secret Drawers, Can Reproduce Them In Court, And By Which It Will Be Enabled To Expose To A Jury The Most Intimate Occurrences Of The Home. Advances In The Psychic And Related Sciences May Bring Means Of Exploring Unexpressed Beliefs, Thoughts And Emotions. 'that Places The Liberty Of Every Man In The Hands Of Every Petty Officer' Was Said By James Otis Of Much Lesser Intrusions Than These.

Nearly All Legislation Involves A Weighing Of Public Needs As Against Private Desires; And Likewise A Weighing Of Relative Social Values.

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.

The Function Of The Press Is Very High. It Is Almost Holy. It Ought To Serve As A Forum For The People, Through Which The People May Know Freely What Is Going On. To Misstate Or Suppress The News Is A Breach Of Trust.

There Is No Such Thing As An Innocent Purchaser Of Stocks.