Magistracy Quotes
6 quotes by 5 authors
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is…
— Edmund Burke
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In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same…
— William Blackstone
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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Who Wrote These Magistracy Quotes
5 authors contributed a total of 6 Magistracy Quotes as follows: