"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
-- President Thomas Jefferson
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."
-- President Theodore Roosevelt
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell, 1984
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
-- Edward R. Murrow
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionist and rebel men and women who dare to disssent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments in life when one resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for themselves."
--Archibald Macleish
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey
"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance."
- Woodrow Wilson
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."
- Charles Austin Beard
"Make your life a friction to the machine"
- Henry David Thoreau
KMFDM
Rage Against the Machine
Slayer
Kings X
So many more and too many to name....maybe I'll add some more later.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, (R) 1952