#precedent

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#boom #defeating #duration #generation #long

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#affront #brilliantly #bush #capable #could

These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history. ↗

— Ferenc Madl

#against #blood #cold #history #institutions

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#capital #combination #contract #culture #deep

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

— Floyd Abrams

#going #police #precedent #right #very

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before. ↗

— J Allard

#before #console #done #going #holiday

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#current #current situation #degree #distrust #exacerbated

A precedent embalms a principle. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#principle

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#american men #been #before #bulwark #communities