John Kreznar writes:
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said that the "right to be left alone is the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."[1]
[1] Quoted in ACLU Briefing Paper Number 5, "Drug Testing in the Workplace", published by the Department of Public Education, American Civil Liberties Union, 132 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036, (212) 944-9800.
This quotation needs to be debugged a little bit. The actual quotation reads as follows: "They [the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights] conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." Olmstead v. United States, 227 U.S. 438, 478 (1928). (Note in particular that it's "let," not "left.") --Mike