“My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
“Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of… — Jefferson Davis 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
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
“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.” — Eric Robert Morse Copy Share Image
“The business of America is business," said Calvin Coolidge. Now the business of America is regulation. It is necessary for once free… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Sumner asserted that without equality of citizens before the law and full consent of the governed, a government could not be considered… — Richard White Copy Share Image
We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
'The Founding Fathers established a nation under God; Ruled not by arbitrary decrees of Kings or whims, of entrenched elites but by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
