32 Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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