All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.

-Fulbright,J(ames) William
  Speech to the US Senate, 21  Apr.

We live in oppressive times.We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship', we call it 'concern for commercial viability'.

-Mamet, David Alan
  Writing in Restaurants,'Radio Drama'.

[He] made himself the rock against which crashed the successive waves of dissent.

-Schoenbaum,ThomasJ
  Of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during theVietnamWar. Waging Peace andWar.

There have been many crimes committed in the name of duty and obedienceömany more than in the name of dissent.

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
  'Testimony of Four Peers', in Esquire, Dec.