Always a Progressive in outlook, Hughes believed in the organic growth and evolution of polities and political relationships; any effort to freeze conditions would inevitably become a reactionary defense of the rights of the privileged against what might, in some cases, be the reasonable and legitimate demands of the dispossessed and the interests of the community as a whole.

Now largely forgotten, Hughes was one of the great political figures of his age, both in America and on the world stage, and was very much the intellectual riv…

I don't know the man I admire more than Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

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 …

Is there anything in which the people of this age and country differ more from those of other lands and former times than in this - their ability to preserve o…

Throughout the world, change is the order of the day. In every Nation economic problems, long in the making, have brought crises of many kinds for which the ma…

During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common we…