Magistrates Quotes

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

— George Washington

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

— Noah Webster

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

— Cato the Younger

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

— Pierre Bayle

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

— Honore de Balzac

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

— Thomas Tusser

The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.

— Roger Williams

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

— Irvine Welsh

All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times…

— George Mason

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

— Ariana Franklin

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all…

— Francis Atterbury

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of…

— John Tillotson

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the…

— James Madison

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of…

— Edward Gibbon

Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be…

— Epictetus

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the…

— Aristotle

For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she…

— Alice-Leone Moats

... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means…

— Abraham Kuyper

“At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of…

— Mike Jay

No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united…

— Edward Everett Hale

How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss…

— Tertullian

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are…

— John Locke

“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

Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,…

— James Madison

During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the…

— Edward Gibbon

The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine…

— Edward Gibbon

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

— John Quincy Adams

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

— Emile Verhaeren

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

— John Locke

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

— Roger Williams

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

— John Milton

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

— Solon

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.

— Frederick The Great