"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."

"In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march."

"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."

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"The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib."

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

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"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."

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"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

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