If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. — George Washington Copy Share Image
During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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