Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves Magistrate: You do? Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household ...
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both...
J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: I require seventy percent. Fernand: And yet you'll only get fifty. J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: Done.
J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: How is your father? Fernand: Alive, unfortunately. J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: We share the same misfortune.
[Wallace is brought before the Royal Magistrate accused of treason against "his" King, Longshanks] William Wallace: Never, in my whole life, have I ever sworn allegiance to him. Royal Magistrate: It matters not. He is your King.
This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
Longshanks: Scottish rebels have routed one of my garrisons and murdered the noble lord. Prince Edward: I heard. This Wallace is a brigand, nothing more. Longshanks: And how would you deal with this 'brigand?' Prince Edward: Like any common thief. Ha...
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
[Murron is tied to a post about to be executed] Magistrate: All of you know full well, the great pains I've always taken never to be too strict, too rigid with the application of our laws, and as a consequence, have we not learned to live together in...
Royal Magistrate: A most excellent idea, sire. Longshanks: Is it?
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Royal Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word. William Wallace: [shouts loud and long] Freedom!
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
