Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

“Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not…

— Aristotle

“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. If we…

— Hannah Arendt

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

— David Mamet

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to…

— Al Gore

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

— John Dryden

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

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

— John James Ingalls

The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth,…

— Theodore Dwight Weld

If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you,…

— Bill Vaughan

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

— John Dryden

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never…

— Michel de Montaigne

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not…

— Nathaniel Branden