Precedent Quotes · Page 2

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

— Anonymous

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

— Julius Caesar

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

— Andrew Jackson

No crime has been without a precedent.

— Seneca the Younger

Well, a precedent is being broken.

— Anonymous

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

— Michael Hyatt

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

— Norman Mailer

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

— Claude Debussy

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

— Annabelle Selldorf

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

— Agnes Denes

Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

— Nikola Tesla

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting…

— Martha Graham

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

— William Cowper

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

— Howard Carter

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

— Tessa Thompson

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

— Bill Nighy

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by…

— James Madison

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went…

— Madame de Stael

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he's creating new ones.…

— Chuck Todd

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the…

— Clara Barton

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in…

— Elie Wiesel

If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the…

— Brett Kavanaugh

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers…

— Nancy Keenan

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my…

— Mary Roach

You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to…

— Howard Gardner

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression…

— George H. W. Bush

To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every…

— Susan B. Anthony

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability…

— Frank Herbert

Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…

— James Madison

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

— Ian Fleming

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

— Rainbow Rowell

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

— George Washington

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

— Will Durant

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

— Floyd Abrams

I know my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.

— Martha Graham

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber