Magistrate Quotes

49 Magistrate quotes by 36 unique authors

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath… — Anthony Holden
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the… — John Stuart Mill
This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king. — Gouverneur Morris
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if… — Robert Barclay
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the… — Bob Matsui
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be… — W. Somerset Maugham
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he… — Epictetus
The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too… — Hugo Black
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. — George Washington
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason… — William Lane Craig
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get… — Saint Basil
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally… — Edward Gibbon
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
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care… — Thomas Jefferson
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — 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 Babington Macaulay
We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with… — Thomas Jefferson
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life — Francis Bacon Sr
A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson

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