A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton 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
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...the work of inspection was left to magistrates and clergymen. To the relief of employers, experience showed that magistrates and clergymen had… — bertrand russell Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton 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
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Elizabeth Holtzman Copy Share Image
They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Primary Duty of Lesser Magistrates is Threefold: First, they are to oppose and resist any laws or edicts from the higher authority… — Matthew J. Trewhella Copy Share Image
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it. — Cato the Younger 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
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king. — Emile Verhaeren 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
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
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