1940 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Popular elections express the will of the people, but back of that will must be the true democratic spirit which alone can save us from the excesses of rule of force. Liberty cannot be conserved by majority rule unless the majority hold sacred basic individual rights regardless of race or creed, so that, along with our differences of view, political and religious, we have a deep and abiding sense of human dignity and worth. . . . Rancor and bigotry, racial animosities and intolerance, are wholly incompatible with that cooperation. They are the deadly enemies of true democracy, more dangerous than any external force because they undermine the very foundations of democratic effort.
