#legitimate

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

— Benjamin Tucker

#any #applied #cannot #defensive #legitimately

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#force #gentleness #legitimate #where

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

— Roger Ebert

#elected #i #legitimately #president #think

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan people #ballot #choose #country #difference

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

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#anybody #before #career #cares #credibility

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world. ↗

— Gennaro Angiulo

#i #legitimate #money #world

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#call #go #into #kind #legitimate

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#legalize #legitimate #some #some things #than

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is. ↗

— Ruth Park

#character #characters #full #genres #lasting