Charles Evans Hughes Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Charles Evans Hughes:
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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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
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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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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
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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
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