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.
– Tom C. Clark
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
– Tom C. Clark
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
– Tom C. Clark
To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.
– Tom C. Clark
To so interpret the language of the act is to extract more sunbeams from cucumbers than did Gulliver's mad scientist.
– Tom C. Clark
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.