Legitimate Rule Quotes

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

For believing Muslims, legitimate authority comes from God alone, and the ruler derives his power not from the people, nor yet from his ancestors, but from God and the holy law.

All governments must maintain power by consent. Not by coercion.

I am available for kings and queens but not banana republic presidents.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

There is no right government except good government.

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

Maintaining legitimacy in an authoritarian state is very difficult.

Tell me if ever in history there was a government which was based exclusively upon the consent of the people, and which was ready to dispense altogether with the use of force. There has never been and never will be such a government.

I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.