Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me. — Lindsey Horan Copy Share Image
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. — Junius Copy Share Image
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I love Obama, and I love the fact that it's a black president of the United States of America, but he's not… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future,… — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Although I know no actual precedent for it, in the case of a particularly powerful Double, such as was given in this… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his… — Vladimir Posner Copy Share Image
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone… — Lois Lerner Copy Share Image
The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Interpretation of laws and it's right application in its true spirit is the bedrock of any judicial mechanism and a legal system..There… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Precedent forces us to suppose that later generations will one day walk around our houses with the same attitude of horror and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“[T]hough in all practical matters it is indispensable, either always or mostly, to follow custom, to do what is generally done, in… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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