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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Charles Evans Hughes
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Charles Evans Hughes
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

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

Charles Evans Hughes
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Charles Evans Hughes
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope!

Charles Evans Hughes
No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse.

Charles Evans Hughes
At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Charles Evans Hughes
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

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.

Charles Evans Hughes