Quotes About Prerogative

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv'd for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

The government is merely a servant?merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought.

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

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.

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

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

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

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

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

There cannot be a stronger proof of that genuine freedom, which is the boast of this age and country, than the power of discussing and examining, with decency and respect, the limits of the king's prerogative. A topic, that in some former ages was thought too delicate and sacred to be profaned by the pen of a subject.

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

Very great, in short, is the prerogative of constitutive instances; for they are of much use in the forming of definitions (especially particular definitions) and in the division and partition of natures; with regard to which it was not ill said by Plato, "That he is to be held as a god who knows well how to define and to divide.

It is the birthright of every under trial citizen of our country to apply for bail, and its the prerogative of the honourable judge to either grant or reject it.

At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.

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

Gabriel: This is a *travesty* of justice. Michael: Justice is my father's prerogative. The rest of us… Lucifer: The rest of us can only do what we think is *right*.

His connection to his life was that of a sculptor to his statue or a novelist to his novel. It is an inviolable right of a novelist to rework his novel. If the opening does not please him, he can rewrite or delete it. But Zdena's existence denied Mirek that author's prerogative. Zdena insisted on remaining on the opening pages of the novel and did not let herself be crossed out.

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

La creación de los robots fue considerada como el primer ejemplo de la arrogancia desmesurada de la Humanidad, de su intento de despojar al teólogo de su manto, por medio de la ciencia mal manejada. La creación de vida humana, con un alma, era prerrogativa única de Dios.

Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.