A #government is not legitimate merely because it exists
#JeaneKirkpatrick

> #USAmbassador #JeaneKirkpatrick, recently honored by #CondoleezzaRice as one of the stellar figures of American diplomacy. For #Kirkpatrick, the socioeconomic provisions of the #UD are “a #LletterToSantaClaus… Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of `entitlements,’ which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.”
#UnitedNations #UniversalDeclaration #HumanRights #LetterFromSantaClaus #NoamChomsky in 2009 the #NewMillenium

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists
#JeaneKirkpatrick

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.... #JeaneKirkpatrick #quotation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeane-kirkpatrick-quotes/#22ae27ba