A precedent embalms a principle.

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Floyd Abrams

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

- George Washington

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

- Greg Walden

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

- Howard Carter

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.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

- Owen Hart

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.

- Rachel Maddow

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

- Sallust

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

- Tessa Thompson