Quote from Justice Charles Evans Hughes 

"It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts."

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Justice Charles Evans Hughes
(1862-1948) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Source:
Harvard Law Review, April 1948
 
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