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At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young family. He appeared to be of unsound mind. -- Mike Jay
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. -- Solon
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. -- Xenophon
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
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. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. -- Honore de Balzac
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it. -- Cato the Younger
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates. -- Pierre Bayle
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them. -- Roger Williams
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. -- Solon
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. -- Irvine Welsh
The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things. -- Roger Williams
Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] -- Tacitus
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
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. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen. -- Ludwig von Mises
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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. -- Blaise Pascal
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. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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. -- Rufus Choate

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