#legitimate

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Peter Lynch

#being #give #government #improved #legitimate

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#his #lacks #legitimate #never #prince

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

— Ron Paul

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

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

#blake #book #certainly #first #his

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

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 #flourishes #government #i

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#against #bush #complicated #end #even

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#behind #come #distinct #go #having

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

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