"Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'"

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Source : Speech to the American Bar Association, September 02, 1925.

Charles Evans Hughes

#Character Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Important Quotes

“The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.”
“You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.”
“There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.”
“The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.”
“In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.”
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-”
“Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.”

Source : JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.”

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