Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr.
American Lawyer and Politician, Governor of New York, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S., U.S. Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the United States, Republican Presidential Candidate losing to Woodrow Wilson
"The essence of religion is belief in a relation to God involving duties superior to those arising from any human relation… duty to a moral power higher than the state."
"Emergency does not create power."
"I believe in work, hard work and long hours of work. Men do not break down from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
"We cannot expect to have an honest horse race until we have an honest human race."
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free."