Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.
'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.
I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.
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.
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.
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.
