#prerogative

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God. ↗

— Roy Moore

#duties #felt #forefathers #god #government

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#monarchical #prerogatives #sick

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #first #fool #himself #make

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#comparing #even #interested #much #only

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#change #contradictory #i #i am #i see

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

#consists #distinguished #earth #eminently #gift

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #children #clothes #emperor #half-wits