Benevolent Quote by Walter Lippmann

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

— Edward Snowden

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

— John McDonnell

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

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it,…

— John Adams

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which…

— Lysander Spooner

“Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

— Edward Bernays

“The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation has been…

— Chris Hedges

“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.”

— Eric Robert Morse

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of…

— Lysander Spooner

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon