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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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 fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.