“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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/
“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
2010s, 2016, Statement regarding the Khan family (1 August 2016)
“The freedom of poetic license.”
Suggested to be from Pro Publio Sestio (sec. 6: "...my attacking those men with some freedom of expression..."
Disputed
Fox & Friends Weekend, Aug 6, 2017, responding to Congresswoman Maxine Waters
1980s, GNU Manifesto (1985)
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year