“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
Charles Evans Hughes“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
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“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
Charles Evans Hughes“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”
Charles Evans Hughes“We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.”
Charles Evans Hughes“While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.”
Charles Evans Hughes“We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.”
Charles Evans Hughes“In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States.”
Susan Quinn, The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times