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. (Edmund Burke)

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.

Edmund Burke

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