Charles Evans Hughes Quotes
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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.
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The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. … the press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
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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.
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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
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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.
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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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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 might be tempted to say 'Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.'
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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
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While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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The exceptional nature of its limitations places in a strong light the general conception that liberty of the press, historically considered and taken up by the Federal Constitution, has meant, principally, although not exclusively, immunity from previous restraints or censorship.