Share this sentence
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
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
Next Quote
[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
— Mark Twain
Loading recommended content...