Famous quotes containing the words magistrate and/or courts:
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 84:10.