“The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer, The rule of liberty that all just government derives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“The first article of my faith is that the sole authority of government... springs from the consent of the governed.”— Thomas E. Dewey
“We admit of no government by divine right... the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.”— William Henry Harrison
“A just government cannot be formed or exist without the consent of the governed.”— Josephine K. Henry
“No man can have rights over another man, unless he has first given his own rights to that other man.”— Auberon Herbert
“Consent is not a word for what women do. It’s a word for what men want women to do.”— Catharine MacKinnon
“What people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is their own business, as long as it's consensual.”— William H. Masters