Consent of the governed Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe Download Open image ““Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”” — Harriet Beecher Stowe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consent of the governed Government Politics Power
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous 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
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann 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 the servant… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” — James Madison 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 destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new… — Declaration of Independence Copy Share
“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.” — T. R. Fehrenbach 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
“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well— is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if only some… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay. More debt… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed… Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
"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 Copy Share Image
