Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.”

“While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.”

“No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. … Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness....”

“The most ominous spirit of our times, as it seems to me, is the indication of the growth of an intolerent spirit. It is the more dangerous when armed, as it usually is, with sincere conviction. It ...”

“…[I]n three notable instances the Court has suffered severely from self-inflicted wounds. The first of these was the Dred Scott case. … There the Supreme Court decided that Dred Scott, a negro, not...”

“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator migh...”

“We still proclaim the old ideals of liberty but we cannot voice them without anxiety in our hearts. The question is no longer one of establishing democratic institutions but of preserving them. … T...”

“I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the foster...”

“At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.”

“[Dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”

“It is no longer open to doubt that the liberty of the press, and of speech, is within the liberty safeguarded by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from invasion by state action. It...”

“But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to respo...”