Quotes by Swift, Jonathan

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as >>

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in >>

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not a >>

Quotations about Precedents

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once >>

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an >>

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. >>

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Swift, Jonathan