Edmund Burke Quotes on Authority
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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.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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.
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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.