Constitution Quote by Barbara Jordan

“Once available, the inquisitorial toolbox could be put to use by any authoritarian regime with the will and the means to unpack and use…

— Jonathan Kirsch

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open…

— Thomas Jefferson

“We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not…

— Joseph Glanvill

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I am a passionate seeker after Truth and a not less passionate enemy of the malignant fictions used by the "Party of Order", the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself.

— Joss Whedon

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

— Anonymous

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when…

— Aristotle

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us…

— Eric Hoffer

“But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their…

— Benjamin Cardozo