Charles Evans Hughes

“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.”

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

“When we are battling for the mind of free men, free speech is the strongest weapon in our arsenal.”

“The judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.”

“A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of a future day.”

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

“Self-restraint is the keynote of character.”

“The flag is the symbol of our national unity, transcending all internal differences, however large, within the framework of the Constitution.”

“Justice is not a sporting theory. If a man has been wronged, he is entitled to a remedy.”

“The first lesson in the school of statecraft is to leave unwatched no vantage-ground of power.”

“It is the man who is loyal to his work who is loyal to his country.”