#legitimate

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#break #business #closed #law #legitimate

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#being #give #government #improved #legitimate

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ↗

— James Madison

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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 hold their power, is derived. ↗

— James Madison

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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. ↗

— Ron Paul

#only #required #self-defense #use #violence

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough. ↗

— Luke Perry

#between #big #big difference #cowboy #difference

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#defeat #depict #efforts #eventually #forces

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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