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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.