Quotes with legitimate

  • Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
  • While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.

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  • Napoleon III The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
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  • Machiavelli A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • James Allen Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bob Schaffer As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Campbell Brown Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Pierre Corneille Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Camus 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 the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Butler 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
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Dubcek Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Billy Joel Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bob Schieffer Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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