Citizens Quote by Edward Gibbon

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

“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

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

In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle…

— George Orwell

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of…

— Wilhelm Frick

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor,…

— John Calvin

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

— Solon

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or…

— Jacob Burckhardt

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It…

— Thomas Jefferson