Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent. — James Otis Copy Share Image
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause,… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
