TOM C. CLARK

We’d have to hide the money for this little old Civil Rights Section under another name or it would never get out of the [Congressional] Committee.

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

I came in 1949, and all of us thought the climate was not just ripe for change. We often delay adjudication. [I]t’s [sic] not a question of evading at all. It’s just the practicalities of life – common sense.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.

In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

We find greedy men, blind with the lust for money, trafficking in human misery.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

I came in 1949, and all of us thought the climate was not just ripe for change. We often delay adjudication. [I]t’s [sic] not a question of evading at all. It’s just the practicalities of life – common sense.

We’d have to hide the money for this little old Civil Rights Section under another name or it would never get out of the [Congressional] Committee.

We find greedy men, blind with the lust for money, trafficking in human misery.

Trial by television is ... foreign to our system.

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.