#legitimate

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#any #applied #cannot #defensive #legitimately

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#elected #i #legitimately #president #think

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#decide #democracy #does #flourishes #general

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#been #business #companies #company #had

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me. ↗

— Joseph P. Kennedy III

#bad people #believe #got #i #legitimate

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#film #genre #horror #i #i see

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#alone #defence #dynasty #ever #freedom

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#common #constitution #country #deprive #deprived

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#catching #feeling #idea #legitimate #oneself

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better. ↗

— Scott Walker

#areas #believe #better #demand #does