“The criminal goes free, if he must, but it is the law that sets him free. 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.”

About Tom C. Clark

Jurist • American

Thomas Campbell Clark was a distinguished American jurist who served as the 39th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949. President Harry S. Truman later appointed him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme...