Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them t...hat which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights and deter...mining the power of the magistrate, were united by personal affection. Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, they stood in awe of each other, as religious men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is often heard, "What is to become of the man ... who, having been Chief Magistrate of the Republic retires at the en...d of his official term to private life?" It seems to me the reply is near at hand and sufficient: Let him, like every other good American citizen, be willing and prompt to bear his part in every useful work that will promote the welfare and the happiness of his family, his town, his State, and his country. With this disposition he will have work enough to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a fr...ee people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a cler...k or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"O human creature, ... you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool o...f the farce."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheist...s, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic... Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless so...metimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »