Consent Quotes

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.