Magistrate Quotes

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. - Grover Cleveland

Yet again some magistrates are maliciously abandoning the search of the truth to pursue political ends on the eve of the elections. - Sandro Bondi

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? / Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? / When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. - Bible

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences. - John Adams

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. - Xenophon

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

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

What I find with people is that they don't always understand why they got a parking ticket, and part of our role is to have an education function ... and explain to people why that occurs, ... Under the old system, the only way you had of discovering that was to go and talk to the magistrates on Broadway. - Dave Hill

We're hoping the magistrate will give us some strong guidance. - Michelle Hostetler

We welcome the prompt action taken by the Burnley magistrates to jail Michael Lewis for five months today. - Brian Barwick