Charles Evans Hughes Quotes

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different.

... the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

People have the right to say what they want to.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.

The United States is a country of freedom that looks primarily after the rights of all of its citizens, of all religions and races, despite the problems in application that manifest themselves from time to time.

Liberty resides in the rights of those people whose views we find most odious.

We have the right to be idiots.

We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.

It's OK to be different, and it's OK to not follow.

Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

This is a free country, and to each their own.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.