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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. Aristotle | top
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. Thomas Babington | top
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So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. Robert Barclay | top
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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. Marcus Tullius Cicero | top
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. Grover Cleveland | top
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. Edward Gibbon | top
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When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?' Anthony Holden | top
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Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. Richard Land | top
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I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time. Robert Matsui | top
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This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king. Gouverneur Morris | top
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Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. Story Musgrave | top
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. James K. Polk | top
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Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. Maximilien Robespierre | top
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau | top
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Bertrand Russell | top
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Charles de Secondat | top
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. Solon | top
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. Xenophon | top
