A precedent embalms a principle.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

My objection to Liberalism is this-that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind-namely, politics-of philosophical ideas …

The right honourable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces …

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

It is possible that the Supreme Court itself may overturn its abortion rulings. We need only recall that in Brown v. Board of Education the court reversed its …