Charles Evans Hughes Quote

At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.


Reported in Justice William O. Douglas, The Court Years (1980), p. 8.


At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting...

At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting...

At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting...

At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting...