Famous quotes containing the words precedent and/or principle:
“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 (1712–1778)
“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)