They will owe this glorious repose to the hereditary rule of a single man, who, raised above all, is to defend public liberty, maintain equality, and lower his fasces before the sovereignty of the people that proclaims him."
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
The magistrates were seated on the subsellia, one of the Duumvirs presiding, in his white robe bordered with purple; his lictors, with staves, not fasces, standing behind him.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
You must submit your fasces to theirs, and at best be contented to follow with songs of gratulation, or invectives, according to your humor, the triumphal car of those great conquerors.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke