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
The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent… — Michael Hastings 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
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the… — J. Bowyer Bell Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want… — Brian Balogh Copy Share Image
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be… — Clara Barton 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
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
