
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Suggested to be from Pro Publio Sestio (sec. 6: "...my attacking those men with some freedom of expression..."
Disputed
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Freedom does not mean license.”
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
"For America's Sake" speech (12 December 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 17
Context: Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control — a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
Announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has voted to enable Wikipedia to be licensed under a Creative Commons license. "Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons" (30 November 2007) http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/