Magistrate Quotations

If he was taken to a magistrate (for court proceedings), he would have been taken by the (county) sheriff's office or police, ... He shouldn't have had contact with anyone or shouldn't be allowed to go into the bathroom alone.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

Liberty of conscience from the power of the civil magistrate hath been of late years so largely and learnedly handled, that I shall need to be but brief in it; yet it is to be lamented, that few have walked answerably to this principle, each pleading it for themselves, but scarce allowing it to others, as hereafter I shall have occasion more at length to observe.

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government

The magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

It was obtained from a magistrate at seven o'clock at night, ... It didn't even go to the federal judge that understands the case, and it was obtained to arrest Elian as an illegal alien ... that's just a lie.

Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life.

The action of a shepherd in keeping sheep, performed as I have said in his kind, is as good a work before God as is the action of a judge in giving sentence, or of a magistrate in ruling, or a minister in preaching.