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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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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."

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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."

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"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."

Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

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"FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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

Learned Hand, American Judge

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"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."

Kate Chopin, American Author

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."

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