32 Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

  • Author Charles Evans Hughes
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    The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

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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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    A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of law, to the intelligence of a future day when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting justice believes the court to have been betrayed.

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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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