Consent Quotes

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

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.

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.

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

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.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

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

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.