To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.


Volume iii, page 497. - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Edmund Burke Quotes

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great...

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great...

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great...

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great...