Precedent Quotes · Page 5

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

— George Washington

[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

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what…

— William Ernest Hocking

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

— John F. Kennedy

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately…

— Walter Lippmann

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the…

— Charles Babbage

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

— Anonymous

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

— Julius Caesar

It really was not that difficult a process, because I was playing [Data from Star Trek] something that doesn't exist. So it…

— Brent Spiner

So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's…

— Marina Keegan

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he…

— Thomas Paine

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…

— James Madison

It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional…

— Arnold Friberg

Precedent goes in support of justice.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As…

— Robert Venturi

A precedent embalms a principle.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

— Sallust

Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A…

— Sam Walter Foss

Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me…

— Brandon Prust

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American…

— Teju Cole

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so…

— Donald Rumsfeld