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Charles Evans Hughes
American
Judge
About the author
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,
American
Judge
#Action
#Public
#Country
#Nation
#Opinion
#Publicity
#Public opinion
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Liberty
#Democracy
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Right
#Privilege
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,
American
Judge
#Law
#Questions
#Principles
#Certainty
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,
American
Judge
#Liberty
#Judges
#Constitution
#Property
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Crime
#War
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#World
#Law
#states
#United
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Home
#First
#Government
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#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,
American
Judge
#Work
#Men
#Hard work
#Worry
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Day
#Law
#Spirit
#Intelligence
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Man
#Company
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#Time
#Law
#Opinions
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes,
American
Judge
#War
#Power
#Wage