Quotes on Legitimate Power

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.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.