Chief Magistrate Quotes
- Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. — Grover Cleveland
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been… — Thomas Jefferson
- That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… — Thomas Jefferson
- He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic… — Grover Cleveland
- I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. — George Washington
- Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official… — James K. Polk
- A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson