Bedrock Quote by Adrian Cronauer

Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" -…

— Thomas I. Emerson

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from…

— Woodrow Wilson

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do…

— Henry David Thoreau

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people;…

— Robert Kennedy

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men…

— Leland Stanford

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

— Paul Tsongas

"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will…

— Jefferson Davis

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

— Walter Lippmann