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Charles Evans Hughes Quotes

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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles Evans Hughes
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
Charles Evans Hughes
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes
We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.
Charles Evans Hughes
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
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
Charles Evans Hughes
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.
Charles Evans Hughes
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
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.
Charles Evans Hughes
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
Charles Evans Hughes
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
Charles Evans Hughes
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
Charles Evans Hughes
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
Charles Evans Hughes
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
Charles Evans Hughes
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
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
The Constitution is what the judges say it is.
Charles Evans Hughes