Precedent Quotes

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JustÂ â€¦ isnâ€™t giving up allowed sometimes? Isnâ€™t it okay to say, â€˜This really hurts, so Iâ€™m going to stop tryingâ€™?â€ â€œIt sets a dangerous precedent.â€… — Rainbow Rowell
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of… — Thomas Jefferson
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. — Christo
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it. — Tessa Thompson
The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and… — Tina Brown
The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and if the opinion… — Samuel Freeman Miller
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong… — William Robertson Smith
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it. — Owen Hart
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. — Junius
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up… — John Roberts
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. — Floyd Abrams
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent… — David Gill
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. — Bill Kristol
I don't follow precedent, I establish it. — Unknown Author
I Do not Follow Precedent, I Set New Precedents for Others to Follow. — Unknown Author
I wanted to know the history of meanness before being mean person so that my meanness also could be precedent — Mak_786
For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as it must do,… — John Dickinson
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is a desire to… — Henry David Thoreau

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