Legitimate Quotes

463 Legitimate quotes by 394 unique authors

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government… — James Madison
However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel. — Hassan Nasrallah
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. — Ron Paul
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force… — Steven Pinker
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests. — Vladimir Putin
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism. — Tariq Ramadan
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency… — Tariq Ramadan
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great… — Julia Roberts
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever… — Salman Rushdie
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost… — Marquis de Sade
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to… — Bob Schieffer
Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure… — Ariel Sharon
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate… — Ike Skelton
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… — Lysander Spooner
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. — Gijs de Vries
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which… — Josiah Warren
Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives. — Paul Wellstone
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. — Virginia Woolf
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. — Thomas Jefferson
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I… — Thomas Merton
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all,… — Abraham Lincoln
For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it… — Soren Kierkegaard
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian? — Hendrik Hertzberg
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger

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