“The freedom of poetic license.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Suggested to be from Pro Publio Sestio (sec. 6: "...my attacking those men with some freedom of expression..."
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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980Related quotes
“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
As quoted by Robert A. Fitton (editor) in Leadership: Quotations From the Military Tradition (1990), p. 126
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist
"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.
“License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
