MORE: You threaten like a dockside bully.

CROMWELL: How should I threaten?

MORE: Like a Minister of State, with justice!

CROMWELL: Oh, justice is what you’re threatened with.

MORE: Then I’m not threatened.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist

A Man for All Seasons, play, Act 2 (1960)
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Bolt's 1966 film adaptation uses the same language.