You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power. ~ Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ~ Henry Steele Commager
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. ~ Archibald Macleish
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around ****-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Talent ... is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters, and rebels. ~ David Ogilvy
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. ~ Harry S Truman
Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive. ~ John F. Kennedy
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. ~ William O. Douglas