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~ Charles Evans Hughes Quotes ~
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Charles Evans Hughes Quotes


A lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York.
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing to Woodrow Wilson. Hughes was an important leader of the progressive movement of the 1900s, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and a leader of opposition to the New Deal in the 1930s. Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.

Here are some famous quotes by Charles Evans Hughes.




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

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Re: ~ Charles Evans Hughes Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2014, 04:35:30 PM »
While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.