Quotes from 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.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

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.

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.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.