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

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

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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.

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

- Charles Evans Hughes

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