“ Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. ”
- Thomas Tusser- Copy
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“ Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ I confess that the magistrate upon his bench is that to the law which a gunner upon his platform is to his cannon. ”
- James Harrington- Copy
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“ Mayor John and I shared a common bond — we were elected Republican mayors in a largely Democratic city. ”
- Rudy Giuliani- Copy
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“ A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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