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
Charles Evans Hughes
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
Charles Evans Hughes
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
Charles Evans Hughes
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
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
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.