Charles Evans Hughes
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Charles Evans Hughes (11 April 1862–27 August 1948) politician, jurist; Governor of New York, US Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the United States.
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Attributed
- "Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
- "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 well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed."
- "War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."
- "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
- "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."
- "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
