Prerogatives Quotes
22 quotes by 16 authors
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives -…
— Charles Hodge
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The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
— Charles Dickens
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The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.
— Billy Graham
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Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
— Charles Lamb
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But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our…
— Charles Hodge
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of…
— William Godwin
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Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary…
— Barry Eichengreen
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By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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…
— Ron Fournier
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My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked…
— Thomas Steinbeck
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The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.
— Virginia Postrel
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But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against…
— Robert Walpole
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And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our…
— Robert Walpole
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No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.
— Tony Snow
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The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found…
— Joshua A Norton
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Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric.
— Robert Boyle
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To whet our longings for fruitive or experimental knowledge, it is reserved among the prerogatives of being in heaven, to know how happy we shall…
— Robert Boyle
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