Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
793
AUTHOR:
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856–1941)
QUOTATION:
Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously.
ATTRIBUTION:
Justice LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, dissenting, Olmstead et al. v. United States, 277 U.S. 485 (1928).
