"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets……" — Charles Evans Hughes
"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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Charles Evans Hughes
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23 Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes has 23 quotes on this site.
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but…
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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution…
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While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
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The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and…
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We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the…
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Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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