Precedent Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

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.

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

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

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

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

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

It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Stability means respecting precedents.

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

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

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

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

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.