All time Quote by George Mason

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

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners.…

— Edward Gibbon

“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

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

— Solon

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli,…

— Aristotle

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but…

— James Madison

All authority belongs to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to…

— George Santayana

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

— Tacitus

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc;…

— Ferdinand Lassalle