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

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

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

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

Dissents speak to a future age.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

I will always love the law; no matter what, I'll always find ways to participate in the law.