Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun! — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.” — Roy Richardson Copy Share Image
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative. — James T Kirk Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image