Charles Evans Hughes Sr. Quotes

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

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

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

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