Precedent Quotes

138 quotes by 119 authors

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things… — Clara Barton
Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man. — Sun Tzu
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens… — James Madison
A precedent embalms a principle. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.… — James Madison
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. — Belva Ann Lockwood
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. — William Cowper
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may… — James Madison
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed… — Graham Coxon
If you are strong enough, there are no precedents. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,… — James Madison
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and… — Mary McCarthy
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. — Elbert Hubbard
What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and… — Anthony Hopkins

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