Accounts Quote by Clinton Rossiter

It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

— Cato the Younger

“Primary Duty of Lesser Magistrates is Threefold: First, they are to oppose and resist any laws or edicts from the higher authority that contravene…

— Matthew J. Trewhella

All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

— George Mason

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

— Tacitus

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

— Abraham Lincoln

If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally…

— Thomas Jefferson

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against…

— John Stuart Mill

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

— Solon

If you rely on political factions to promote men to office, the people will work to develop instrumental relationships and will not seek to…

— Han Fei

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

— William Gilmore Simms