prerogative quotes

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

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

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

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