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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
by Josiah Royce (Philosopher, American , born in 1855) keywords: agreement, consent, constantly, continually, industry, makes, our, respect, shall, show, some, sort, strenuous, whereby, will , world In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
by Donald Rumsfeld (Politician, American , born in 1932) keywords: command, consent, contacts, critical, experiences, help, his, lead, leadership, must, our, personal, persuade, president, shape, system, thinking , thus 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.
by Phyllis Schlafly (Activist, American , born in 1924) keywords: birth, citizens, citizenship, consent, defines, express, implied, jurisdiction, location, parents, physical, sovereign, whether , your Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
by DeForest Soaries (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: act, breathes, consent, foundational, governed, into, life, principle , voting 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.
by Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher , born in 1632) keywords: bad, cannot, civil, common, conceived, consent, decreed, good, natural, only, sin, state , where 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.
by Leland Stanford (Educator, American , born in 1824) keywords: consent, cornerstone, doctrine, endowed, founded, governed, government, great, inalienable, itself, memorable, men, principle, rights , upon '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.
by Algernon Sydney (Politician, English , born in 1623) keywords: come, comprehend, consent, equal, force, hard, himself, how, man, many, master, right, tis , unless The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
by Dick Thornburgh (Politician, American , born in 1932) keywords: affairs, authorizing, consent, derive, exercised, federal, governed, government, law, local, locally, only, otherwise, powers, those , unless 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.
by Howard Thurman (Educator, American , born in 1900) keywords: cause, center, commitment, consent, dies, him, his, ideal, important, lives, man, may, means, more, movement, nerve, possible, purpose, than, whether, which , yield 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.
by Lionel Trilling (Critic, American , born in 1905) keywords: badness, condition, consent, contemplation, cruel, cruelty, humane, make, our, possible, spiritual, us , will 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.
by Paul Tsongas (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: ago, based, consent, democracy, derives, fathers, founding, gave, governed, government, hundred, idea, noble, our, simple, two, upon, us, validity, years , yet Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (Politician, South African , born in 1854) keywords: consent, government, had, naturally, our, proceed, such, terms, war , would Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
by Mary Lou Williams (Musician, American , born in 1910) keywords: came, consent, done, encourage, end, except, feared, few, had, having, hear, hoping, house, lessons, love, ma, many, might, more, music, musicians, our, paper, play, quite, she, took, unable , up 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.
by Charles E. Wilson (Businessman, American , born in 1886) keywords: any, bargaining, benefit, cannot, consent, employers, improve, many, more, plans, raise, realize, reduce, rights, than, them, union, unions, wages, where , without What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: based, consent, governed, law, mankind, opinion, organized, reign, seek, sustained , upon
