#magistrate

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. ↗

— Richard Land

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. ↗

— Solon

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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

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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

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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

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