Sole Legitimate Government

Famous quotes containing the words sole, legitimate and/or government:

“From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The wonderful scope and variety of female loveliness, if too long suffered to sway us without decision, shall finally confound all power of selection. The confirmed bachelor is, in America, at least, quite as often the victim of a too profound appreciation of the infinite charmingness of woman, as made solitary for life by the legitimate empire of a cold and tasteless temperament.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)