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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas Jefferson
Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. -- William Henry Harrison
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'Ã©tats, the removal of legitimate power. -- Vladimir Putin
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. -- Walter Lippmann
the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government. -- Evan Meekins
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? -- Allan Sekula
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. -- Peter Drucker
I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power, and I think it's legitimate, and I don't see that's a danger to us. -- Manmohan Singh
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. -- bell hooks

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