Authority Quote by Andrew Jackson Download Open image “Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.” — Andrew Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Dangerous Innovation Mere Precedent Source
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand — George Washington Copy Share Image
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. — Floyd Abrams 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 can only… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage;… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
