Legitimate Quotes

463 Legitimate quotes by 394 unique authors

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. — Al Capone
For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn… — Pope Leo XIII
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to… — Alexander Hamilton
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. — Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. — John Quincy Adams
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may… — Walter Lippmann
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage… — Albert Camus
The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out. — Albert Einstein
I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I… — Claire Danes
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity — Ron Silver
I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that… — Patricia Heaton
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And… — Rick Santorum
I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to… — James Randi
Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this… — Ward Connerly
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill
If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the… — Unknown Author
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that… — Robin Morgan
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. — Edgar Allan Poe
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. — Edward Abbey
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. — Thomas Jefferson
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense… — James Madison
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the… — Ida B. Wells
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money… — Robert Silverberg
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to… — Robert Bork

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