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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
  • I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. -- George Washington
  • The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. -- J.G. Farrell
  • [It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate. -- James Madison
  • Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress. -- Daniel Webster
  • To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people. -- Andrew Jackson
  • If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. -- James Madison
  • This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king. -- Gouverneur Morris
  • Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland
  • Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. -- Maximilien Robespierre
  • Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. -- Richard Land
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Bob Matsui
  • 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 Macaulay
  • 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
  • We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not. -- Saint Basil
  • I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. -- Francis Bacon
  • The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate. -- John Locke
  • A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state. -- Frederick the Great
  • Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. -- Jenny Eclair
  • Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. -- Thomas Tusser
  • The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure. -- Noah Webster
  • Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. -- Francis Bacon
  • The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God -- John Quincy Adams
  • In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king. -- Emile Verhaeren
  • A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name. -- Ariana Franklin
  • O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • 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 bewildered. -- Elizabeth Proctor
  • The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children. -- Zhang Zhao
  • A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life. -- Francis Atterbury
  • Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. -- John Tillotson
  • The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate. -- Hugo Black
  • Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella. -- Sam Ervin
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