Charles Evans Hughes Quotes & Sayings

“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, 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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”