"[Dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
— Dissent

January 1, 1970

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Charles Evans Hughes, reported in "Keeping Politics out of the Court", The New York Times (December 9, 1984); quoted in The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics (1992) by Jay M. Shafritz, p. 407.