Hereafter Quote by Tacitus

Precedent goes in support of justice.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

— Junius

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

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

— James Madison

As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these…

— George Washington

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber

“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

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand

— George Washington

Well, a precedent is being broken.

— Anonymous

Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution…

— George Washington

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

— Horace Mann

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

— Julius Caesar