Legitimate Quotes

463 Legitimate quotes by 394 unique authors

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out! — Allan Rock
... we're not interested in confiscating their guns, as long as they are legitimate gun owners, as long as they store them appropriately, transport them… — Anne McLellan
You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun. — Terry Rossio
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema. — Guillermo del Toro
Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians… — Unknown Author
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of… — James Madison
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden,… — Pope John Paul II
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They… — Pope Leo XIII
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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

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