"For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape,
than that the government should play an ignoble part."
-- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"
Source: Olmstead v. United States, 1928
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Oliver.Holmes,.Quote.4082