Great Purifier Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

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Charles Evans Hughes has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
• We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest…
• The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
• Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted…
• While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
• The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
• The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
• In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
• Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
• The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
• We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of…
• Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls…

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