#prerogative

The first is the law, the last prerogative. ↗

— John Dryden

#last #law #prerogative

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fool #prerogative #speak #truths #utter

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

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

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

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

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

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#free #guarded #imagination #inestimable #must