Charles Evans Hughes Quote

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


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.


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

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

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

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