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Charles Evans Hughes

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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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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


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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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


— Charles Evans Hughes


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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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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.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.


— Charles Evans Hughes


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


— Charles Evans Hughes


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About Charles Evans Hughes

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Did you know about Charles Evans Hughes?

Even as Hughes expanded the regulatory power of the states he took a nationalist stance with respect to the authority of Congress over commerce including that within the various states. For example invoking police power arguments he upheld a Georgia statute requiring electric headlights on locomotives including those engaged in interstate commerce. Similar arguments appeared in the United States.

He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U. S. Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.

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