Consent Quotes

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.