Legitimate

Famous quotes containing the word legitimate:

“We cannot think of a legitimate argument why ... whites and blacks need be affected by the knowledge that an aggregate difference in measured intelligence is genetic instead of environmental.... Given a chance, each clan ... will encounter the world with confidence in its own worth and, most importantly, will be unconcerned about comparing its accomplishments line-by-line with those of any other clan. This is wise ethnocentricism.”
—Richard Herrnstein (1930–1994)

“The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)

“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)