The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
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.
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
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