Magistrates Quotes

Magistrates Quote of the day

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

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

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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

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

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

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

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.

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

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.