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.

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

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

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

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

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants airports streets hotel lobbies parks and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

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.

Cats don't like change without their consent.

Civilization exists by geological consent subject to change without notice.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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