“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”
Irving R. Kaufman
“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
“All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures”
Julius Caesar
“A drink precedes a story.”
Irish Proverb
“And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t”
Hermann Hesse
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent”
Will Durant
“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”
Belva Lockwood
