Quotes About The Consent Of The Governed

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

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

Walter Lippmann

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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 or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

Ayn Rand

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Eric Robert Morse

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

Adrian Cronauer

#15. The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.

Elliott Abrams

#16. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

Edward Snowden

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

Jonathan Swift

#18. Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#19. "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Glenn Greenwald

#21. As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

Dick Thornburgh

#25. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

Abraham Lincoln