Quotes with precedent

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• A precedent embalms a principle.

  ― Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

  ― Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• 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.

  ― Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.

  ― Junius
  pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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• Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

  ― Bill Kristol
  American political analyst (1952 - )
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• What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

  ― Benjamin Cardozo
  American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• pronouncement
• accumulate
• constitute
• uniformity
• sacrificed
• overnight

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