Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr.was an American statesman, lawyer, and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Secretary of State, a judge on the Court of International Justice, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States. He was the Republican nominee in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing narrowly to incumbent President Woodrow Wilson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth11 April 1862
CountryUnited States of America
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Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.
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.
The Constitution is what the judges say it is.
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.