Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
Patricia Ireland

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting

Cats don't like change without their consent.
Roger Caras

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant

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.
Howard Thurman

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Andreas Capellanus

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

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

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand

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

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille

I can never consent to being dictated to.
John Tyler

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.
Andrew Jackson

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Zebulon Pike

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
Pierre Laval

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
Nellie Bly

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.
John Entwistle

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato