. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed.… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians… — Yochai Benkler 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
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers… — Nancy Keenan Copy Share Image
You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint.… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake… — Tiberius Copy Share Image
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
