Precedent Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Party, Law, Congress

  Hearings, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• Stability means respecting precedents.

  Arlen Specter

  Mean, Stability

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• Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

  John Sununu

  Marriage, Law, Defining

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• During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

  Martin Filler

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  School, Dark, Court Judges

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• All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Waiting, Pay

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

  Bill Nighy

  Able, Helping, Help Me

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• It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

  James Madison

  Self, Germs, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.219

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• The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

  James Madison

  Growing Up, People, Evil

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• If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• 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.

  Graham Coxon

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Interview with Alex McCann, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• I love Obama, and I love the fact that it's a black president of the United States of America, but he's not the first black president. Robert Mugabe is a black president ,too, so let's not get to talking about precedents being set.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Talking, America, Black

  "Lupe Fiasco supports Barack Obama but says he's not first black president" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Sorry, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.228

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• The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.

  Michael Hastings

  People, Decision, Listening

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Nike, Games, Jordan

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those unemployed moments, those other options will take precedent. From a directorial standpoint, I think it's really Freudian, the amount of trust I have in filmmakers because I have such a trusting relationship with my dad.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dad, Thinking, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Giving, Historical

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish...that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more'. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?

  Anthony Hopkins

  Morning, Memories, Night

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• Precedents once established are so much positive power.

  James Madison

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.511

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• History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  History, Political, Way

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• ... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Art, Writing

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

  Richard Grossman

  Law, Class, Community

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Organization, Way

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• We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Impact, Years, Decision

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• The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, . . . There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.

  Lawrence Stone

  Unique, Years, Historical

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