Precedent Quotes

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

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.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

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

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

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

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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.

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

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.

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

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

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

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

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

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.

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

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

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

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

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.