We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restric…

- Charles Evans Hughes

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 …

- Charles Evans Hughes

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has w…

- Charles Evans Hughes

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 an…

- 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

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

Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental po…

- Charles Evans Hughes

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

- Charles Evans Hughes

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

- Charles Evans Hughes