Charles Evans Hughes

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

— Charles Evans Hughes

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

— 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

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

— Charles Evans Hughes

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.

— Charles Evans Hughes