Charles Evans Hughes's Quotes

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

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Profit per se is not my motive.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.