The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
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.
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.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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.
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.
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.
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
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!
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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