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• The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

  George Washington

  Hands, Pockets, Revolution

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• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Taxation Without Representation, Majesty, Dominion

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

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• By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Age, World

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

  Pope Francis

  Truth, Believe, Thinking

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• It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

  Thomas Paine

  Law, Generations, Succeed

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”

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• If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

  John Locke

  Government, Law, People

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.311

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• Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

  John Calvin

  Men, Law, Numbers

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure."

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Perfect, Doubt

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• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

  Alexander Berkman

  Gun, Needs, Helping

  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (2005). “The ABC of Anarchism”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

  Neville Goddard

  Mind, Genius, Wealth

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Territory, Red, Humanitarian

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• There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Long, Wanted

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• When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Vices, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.319

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• Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

  Euripides

  Mean, Excellence, Humans

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Father, Simple, Government

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• By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

  Tacitus

  Political, Politics, Ruling

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• The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Suffragists, Critical

  "Freedom or death". Emmeline Pankhurst's Speech in Hartford, Connecticut, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 1913.

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• President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

  Chuck Grassley

  Decision, Advice, President

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• It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, People, Common

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.165, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

  George Papandreou

  Business, Government, People

  "Why We Must Unite Against The Unprincipled Speculators". www.businessinsider.com. March 8, 2010.

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• Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Want, Constitution

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• And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.

  Joseph Warren

  Patriotic, Law, Important

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• Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

  John Redwood

  Men, Goes On, Want

  "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.

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• There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

  Rose Kennedy

  United States, Oppression, Oppressed

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