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One can only conclude that they (magistrates) want to interfere with the election campaign.

Niccolo Ghedini

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

Rufus Choate

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?

Paul Vincent

We don't abduct anybody. We are not even holding anybody -- even those we take in on cordon operations are handed to the police and appear in the magistrates' court.

Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe