Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them."
Magistrates quotes
Magistrates
4 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Cato the Younger
Politician
"Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it."
Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things."
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