Precedent Quotes

Precedent Quote of the day

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

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

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

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.

If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.