To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
Cats don't like change without their consent.
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
