#prerogative

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

— Neil Gaiman

#fool #prerogative #speak #truths #utter

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

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

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#direct #feel #had #little #occasion

The first is the law, the last prerogative. ↗

— John Dryden

#last #law #prerogative

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

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. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#american #american lives #because #capabilities #concerned

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

— Francis Bacon

#friends #great #his #laughs #loses