Magistrates Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual.…
— Rajneesh
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
— Solon
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If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of…
— Blaise Pascal
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In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to…
— John Milton
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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
— Xenophon
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Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the…
— Samuel Butler
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Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law
— Solon
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Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties;…
— John Adams
Who Wrote These Magistrates Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Magistrates Quotes as follows: