Consent Quotes

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.

No one can make you feel inferior without your 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.

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.

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

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

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

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.

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

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.