…to be strictly just, [the authority of government]
must have the sanction and consent of the governed.
It can have no pure right over my person and
property but what I concede to it.

ATTRIBUTION:
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)


It was not because the three-penny tax on tea was so
exorbitant that our Revolutionary fathers fought and
died, but to establish the principle that such taxation
was unjust. It is the same with this woman’s
revolution; though every law were as just to woman
as to man, the principle that one class may usurp the
power to legislate for another is unjust, and all who
are now in the struggle from love of principle would
still work on until the establishment of the grand and
immutable truth, “All governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed.”

ATTRIBUTION:
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)