"We [the Government] are here not as masters……" — Charles Evans Hughes
"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 restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority."
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Charles Evans Hughes
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23 Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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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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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public…
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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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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As…
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to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French…
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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.…
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I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our…
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Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that…
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Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to…
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The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed…
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Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less…
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