4 Edmund Burke Quotes on Authority

Edmund Burke quotes on authority

23. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

105. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

110. 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.

115. In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.