Civil Magistrate

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or magistrate:

“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

“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 (1712–1778)