prerogative quotes

Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.1, l.261^2.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribeöresponsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. See Baldwin 54:46.

-Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler
 Lord Malquist and Mr Moon, pt.6.

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