Charles Evans Hughes

The only real progress to abiding peace is found in the friendly disposition of peoples and … facilities for maintaining peace are useful only to the extent that this friendly disposition exists and finds expression.

There is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may open to it. The way of peace is through agreement, not through force.

Great powers agreeing among themselves may indeed hold small powers in check. But who will hold great powers in check when great powers disagree?

Time has shown how illusory are alliances of great powers so far as the maintenance of peace is concerned. In considering the use of international force to secure peace, we are again brought to the fundamental necessity of common accord.

the suggested remedy thus implies a state of mind in which no cure is needed. As the restraint is self-imposed it will prove to be of avail only while there is a will to peace.

The restraints they may be willing to place upon themselves will always be subject to such conditions as will leave them able to afford self-protection by force, and in this freedom there is abundant room for strife sought to be justified …

justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted aggression, or where on each side the cause is not believed to be just by the peoples who support …

It is not surprising that many should be captivated by the proposal, with its delusive simplicity and adequacey, for the outlawry of war. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. The …

The pathway of peace is the longest and most beset with obstacles the human race has to tread; the goal may be distant, but we must press on.

…[I]n three notable instances the Court has suffered severely from self-inflicted wounds. The first of these was the Dred Scott case.

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope.

The most ominous spirit of our times, as it seems to me, is the indication of the growth of an intolerent spirit.

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

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

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope!

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse.

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

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