Magistrate Quotes

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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. — Grover Cleveland
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests… — Alexander Hamilton
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king. — Emile Verhaeren
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the… — James Madison
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,… — Martin Luther
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be.Â The Christian religion is the best religion that has been… — Thomas Jefferson
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament… — George Gillespie
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn… — Samuel Rutherford
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at… — James Madison
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping… — Elizabeth Holtzman
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
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous… — David Hume
Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a… — Nelson Mandela
If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,… — Thomas Jefferson
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. — J. G. Farrell
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
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table… — Roger Williams

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