Precedent Quotes

• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

  

  Sallust
  • Bad
  • Measure
  • Precedent

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

  

  George Washington
  • May
  • Political
  • Politics

• Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

  

  Will Durant
  • Truth
  • Custom
  • Precedent

• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Done
  • Past
  • Faith

• What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

  

  Lloyd Doggett
  • Industry
  • Setting
  • Precedent

• I would rather create a precedent than find one.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Law
  • Precedent

• 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.

  

  George Washington
  • Situation
  • Firsts
  • Principles

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

  

  Howard Carter
  • Seeing
  • Dreamed
  • Precedent

• We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Events
  • Climate Change
  • Mass

• No crime has been without a precedent.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Crime
  • Prison
  • Precedent

• Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Practice
  • Feels
  • India

• In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.

  

  David Roediger
  • Catholic
  • Citizens
  • Concerned

• 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.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Law
  • Honor
  • Looks