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In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
Tom C. Clark / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Committed
Neutrality
Position
States
Firmly
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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.
Tom C. Clark / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Arena
Cities
Court
Crime
Entitled
Trials
Defendant
Nationwide
Specific
Stadium
Trial
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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.
Tom C. Clark / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Law
Libertarian Party
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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.
Tom C. Clark / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Clamor
Coverage
Prejudice
Radio
Television
Trials
Inevitably
Result
Therefore
Trial
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The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power - but in God alone.
Tom C. Clark / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Father
Rights
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Death
Dream
Civilization
Stills
Wilderness
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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.
Tom C. Clark / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Real
Religious
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