"We still proclaim the old ideals of liberty but we cannot voice them without anxiety in our hearts. The question is no longer one of establishing democratic institutions but of preserving them. … The arch enemies of society are those who know better but by indirection, misstatement, understatement, and slander, seek to accomplish their concealed purposes or to gain profit of some sort by misleading the public. The antidote for these poisons must be found in the sincere and courageous efforts of those who would preserve their cherished freedom by a wise and responsible use of it. Freedom of expression gives the essential democratic opportunity, but self-restraint is the essential civic discipline."
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Justices of the Supreme Court of the United StatesLawyers from New York (state)United States Secretaries of StateUnited States presidential candidates, 1908United States presidential candidates, 1916
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As quoted in Charles Evans Hughes (1951) by Merlo J. Pusey, Vol. II, p. 794
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Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes (11 April 1862 – 27 August 1948) was a Republican politician and jurist who served as Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the United States.
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