Importance Quote by 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

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

— Tacitus

An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their…

— Clinton Rossiter

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

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

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

— Pierre Bayle

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

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

— Solon

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to…

— Aristotle

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

“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