Tom C. Clark quotes
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“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.”
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“The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.”
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“In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.”
-- Tom C. Clark
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Abraham Cowley, Etc, A. R. Waller (2014). “Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses”, p.377, Cambridge University Press
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
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“I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”
Source : Song: Meat And Potato Man, Album: When Somebody Loves You, 2000
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