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Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed -- Walter E. Williams
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. -- Jonathan Swift
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. -- DeForest Soaries
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. -- Adrian Cronauer
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. -- Walter Lippmann
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. -- Woodrow Wilson
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed. -- Thomas Jefferson
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed. -- Edward Snowden
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established. -- Jefferson Davis
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. -- Robert H. Jackson
Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" - it follows that the governed must, in order to exercise their right of consent, have full freedom of expression. -- Thomas I. Emerson
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. -- Calvin Coolidge
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. -- Woodrow Wilson
As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both. -- Chalmers Johnson
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. -- Ronald Reagan
Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal. -- Nelson Antonio Denis
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 abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. -- Cory Doctorow
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed -- Edward Snowden

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