What is legitimate?

Famous quotes containing the word legitimate:

“What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.”
—Edward Johnson (b. 1915)

“Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

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