Charles Evans Hughes Quotes
"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Democracy, Liberty)
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Privilege, Right)
"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Certainty, Law, Principles, Questions)
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Constitution, Judges, Liberty, Property)
"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: War, Crime)
"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Law, states, United, World)
"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Government, Home, First)
"Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Men, Worry)
"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Men, Work, Hard work, Worry)
"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Intelligence, Day, Law, Spirit)
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Company, Man)
"In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Time, Law, Opinions)
"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully."
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Related: Power, War, Wage)