Rise and Fall

"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became supreme judge of the German people."

quote from a 1934 speech by Adolf Hitler from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

It's making the rounds here in response to Bush's defiance of the law where illegal wiretapping is involved.