Blessing Quote by Francis Atterbury

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

— John Locke

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat…

— Elizabeth Proctor

Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures,…

— James K. Polk

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

— George Washington

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

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

— John Quincy Adams

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such…

— Andrew Jackson

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world,…

— John Tillotson

“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold…

— Marquis de Sade

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

— Anonymous