To Execute Laws Is A Royal Office; To Execute Orders Is Not To Be A King.

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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.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 497

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