Prerogative Quotes

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.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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.

I am very concerned that we have given up capabilities and methodologies that have worked in the past. I know they work and I'm concerned because in the future we may need these. So while it is the prerogative of the president to make that decision, I am concerned that in the future we may miss these and we may need them to protect American lives.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

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

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.

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

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

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

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.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

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.

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.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.