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[Dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
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dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.


— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Interview with Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio (May 2, 2002).

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The conflict about the meaning of free speech went on through the 1920s, Holmes and Brandeis persisting in their view and expressing it in strongly worded dissents. In one sense it was a curious performance by the two of them, for each had a deep commitment to the Supreme Court as an institution and thought that division among the justices should be avoided when possible.

anthony lewis

— Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment, Vintage (1992, pg. 82-83)

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dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

ruth bader ginsburg

— Interview with Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio (May 2, 2002)

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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.

felix frankfurter

— Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).

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[dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

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.

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