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Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.
— Billy Graham
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.
— John Chamberlain
We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
— Ingrid Newkirk
There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.
— James Hunter
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
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
— Walter Lippmann
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.— Mariane Pearl
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
— Tariq Ramadan
Develop your legitimate strangeness.
— Rene Char
The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.
— Jonathan Franzen
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
— John Stuart Mill
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
— Mario Benedetti
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
— Xaviera Hollander
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
— Alan Bersin
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
— Marquis De Lafayette
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
— Martin Puryear
There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.
— Oswald Chambers
Positive thinkers always affirm blessings on themselves and see themselves as legitimate heirs.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
— Stephen King
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.
— Bertrand Russell
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
— H. Beam Piper
My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.
— Diego Maradona
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
— Lord Acton
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!
— Allan Rock
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
One could simply say it's a legitimate fear-response, a reasonable and deeply internalized reaction to a shrinking economic pie.
— Jennifer Senior
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.
— Michael Redhill
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
— Gloria Steinem
I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.
— Rick Scott
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
— Byron Katie
Doc, I'm feeling different from my usual whorish self. I think I might be ill." It's a perfectly legitimate concern.
— Sabrina Paige
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
What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?
— Julia Margaret Cameron
My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.
— Rick Perry
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
— Harold Geneen
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
— John H. Reagan
Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.
— Peggy Ullman Bell
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
— Menachem Begin
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.
— Hedi Slimane
Taxation is the legitimate support of government.
— Adolphe Thiers
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.
— Robert Nozick
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
— Donald Knuth
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
— Nicolas Chamfort
I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.
— Billy Eichner
The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
— Evan Meekins
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
— Francois Hollande
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
— J.G. Holland
If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.
— Rob Corddry
Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.
— Orson Scott Card
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
If it is legitimate to kill in self-defence then it must be equally legitimate to steal in self-defence
— Agona Apell
However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.
— Hassan Nasrallah
Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Lobbying is a legitimate profession ... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
— Patricia Schroeder
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
— Edgar Allan Poe
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.
— Kevin D. Williamson
I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.
— W. Kamau Bell
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
— Charles XII Of Sweden
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
— M. Scott Peck
She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home..
— Khaled Hosseini
Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
Power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.
— Malcolm Gladwell
