Accepted Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

— Tacitus

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

— Lord Acton

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic

— George Henry Lewes

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

— James Madison

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

— Charles Evans Hughes

“The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted and believed, or because it likes them, draws everything else…

— Gary Taubes

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

— Blaise Pascal

“But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect.…

— Richard A. Posner

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal…

— Samuel Johnson

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

— Dan Simmons