Precedent Quote by Sallust Download Open image “Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.” — Sallust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Precedent
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
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
