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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

-Baruch Spinoza

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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Cats don't like change without their consent.

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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

-Joseph Conrad

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

-Abraham Lincoln

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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

-Susan B. Anthony

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

-Jonathan Swift

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

-Adrian Cronauer

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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

-Andrew Jackson

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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

-Leland Stanford

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

-Paul Tsongas

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The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

-Albert Camus

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

-Pierre Corneille

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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

-William Ellery Channing

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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

-Donald Rumsfeld

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Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

-Bob McDonnell

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Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

-Howard Thurman

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

-Robert Frost

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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

-E. Stanley Jones

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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

-George Bancroft

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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

-Josiah Royce

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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

-Johann Kaspar Lavater

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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