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- 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… — Clara Barton
- Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you… — Sun Tzu
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — 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… — 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.… — 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.… — Douglas MacArthur
- The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington
- Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by… — James Madison