
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.
Discurso perante a Câmara de Comércio, Elmira, Nova York (3 maio 1907), publicada no "Addresses and Papers of Charles Evans Hughes", governador de Nova Iorque, 1906-1908 (1908), p. 139