Quotes about licensing
A collection of quotes on the topic of license, licensing, doing, people.
Quotes about licensing

Last speech to parliament, December 24, 1545.
English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII to the Death of Archbishop Parker, Rev. Alfred Plummer, 1905, Edinburg, T. & T. Clark, p. 85. http://books.google.com/books?id=ofMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85&dq=%22+you+be+permitted+to+read+holy+scriptures%22


As I Please column in The Tribune (18 August 1944), http://alexpeak.com/twr/dwall/
"As I Please" (1943–1947)

“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”
Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)

Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

James Tobin, "Keynes' Policies in Theory and Practice", Challenge (1983).
1970s and later

Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature

Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574
Non-Fiction, Letters

Tried As By Fire, or The True and The False, Socially, speech, 1874, quoted in Gabriel, Mary, Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored (Chapel Hill, N.Car.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed. 1998 ISBN 1-56512-132-5, p. 222 & n. [20] (each ellipsis or set of suspension points so in original) (author Mary Gabriel journalist, Reuters News Service), in turn as reprinted in Stern, Madeleine B., ed., The Victoria Woodhull Reader (Weston, Mass.: M&S Press, 1974).

To John Hancock https://web.archive.org/web/20141008220806/http://amrevmuseum.org/reflections/african-americans-continental-army-and-state-militias-during-american-war-independence (31 December 1775)
1770s, Letter to John Hancock (1775)

IV, 3
Variant translation: The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
The City of God (early 400s)
Context: The dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule, for they destroy their own souls by greater license in wickedness; while those who are put under them in service are not hurt except by their own iniquity. For to the just all the evils imposed on them by unjust rulers are not the punishment of crime, but the test of virtue. Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices; of which vices when the divine Scripture treats, it says, “For of whom any man is overcome, to the same he is also the bond-slave.”

1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)
Context: It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from Government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested. Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury. It should be as much the aim of those who seek for social- betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence. Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

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Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/06/books/book-reviews/life-japans-god-manga/#.XSjK_VVKi70 "The life of Osamu Tezuka, Japan’s ‘god of manga’"
Now or Never
Focus Fourteen
Source: The Freedom Manifesto

“Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.”
Variant: So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.
Source: Spirit Bound
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

“Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?”


Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Freedom does not mean license.”
“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Barsky v. Board of Regents, 347 U.S. 442, 470 (1954).
Judicial opinions
Gary Kildall (1980) " The History of CP/M, The Evolution of an Industry: One Person's Viewpoint http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/CPM_history_kildall.txt." Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia Vol. 5 (1) (41). p. 6-7

Cardinal Dolan on the ‘Culture of Death’: ‘Isolated, Chic Left’ in Denial About Growing Pro-Life Support in America http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/cardinal-dolan-culture-death-isolated-chic-left-denial-growing-pro-life-support-america/ (January 26 2017)

"Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States", published in The Edinburgh Review (1820)
Commencement Address at the University of Southern California (March 17, 1970).
Other

Interview by Laura Knoy on NHPR, June 5, 2007 http://info.nhpr.org/node/13016
2000s, 2006-2009

The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (1853), "Rigdon's Depression"

“Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.”
http://jco.usfca.edu/boxing/desert.html
On boxing

As editor of Die Transvaler on 1 October 1937, 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web) https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/hendrik-verwoerd-10-quotes-hendrik-verwoerd-politics-web-20-september-2016, sahistory.org.za (20 September 2016)

1990s, Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source" (1998)

[Hartford Advocate, 2006-04-27, Your computer is not secure]
Politics and societal issues of the digital age

Source: Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, 2002, Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)

Entick v. Carrington, 19 Howell’s State Trials 1029 (1765), Constitution Society, United States, 2008-11-13 http://www.constitution.org/trials/entick/entick_v_carrington.htm,

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 122

Speech by Geert Wilders during parliamentary debate in the Netherlands (4 September 2014) http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/09/the-netherlands-has-become-the-victim-of-islam/ ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7mfCYbGGuI)
2010s

"For America's Sake" speech (12 December 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 21

nasal sex with dead plants
Stallman archives (28 June 2003) https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html
2000s

pg. 28
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Hunting
March 30, 1989 letter sent to every member of the United States Congress ([An Open Letter, William B. Ruger, 18, American Handgunner, 5, 12, 1992]).

"God is not enough" (23 May 2008) http://youtube.com/watch?v=1czXvHSjDac&feature=related)
2008

Source: Disputed, Hitler Speaks (1940), p. 191.

“Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)

“Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.”
Driver's Licenses For Illegals?, Phyllis Schlafly Columns, 2007-03-30, Schlafly, Phyllis, 2005-04-20 http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/apr05/05-04-20.html,

from a public lecture, as quoted in David L. Goodstein, "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher," Physics Today, volume 42, number 2 (February 1989) p. 70-75, at p. 73
Republished in the "Special Preface" to Six Easy Pieces (1995), p. xxi.
Republished also in the "Special Preface" to the "definitive edition" of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I, p. xiv.
Source: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 22: Poetic Drama and Opera (p. 125)

Source: Letters from Abu Ghraib (2008), pp. 64-65.

Wall Street Journal, September 11 1975.
1970s

Why the Smartphone Market Works and Why Apple Wants to Kill It http://techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2017/06/12/432715-why-smartphone-market-works-why-apple-wants-kill.htm in TechZone360 (12 June 2017)
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 21
http://www.survivalblog.com/2012/11/notes-from-jwr-551.html
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009)
When asked by SportsHollywood "What is valley girl Julie Richman doing today? http://www.sportshollywood.com/askforeman.html

Outrage http://outragemag.com/is-chiz-your-vice-president-for-eleksyon2016/
2016

Talk titled The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 26, 2007 http://www.archive.org/details/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007text.

As quoted in " Desmond Tutu turns 75 http://www.news24.com/World/News/Desmond-Tutu-turns-75-20061006" at News24 (6 October 2006)

Obergefell v. Hodges http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf (26 June 2015).
2010s

“The Defunct Foundations of the Republic,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=528 WorldNetDaily.com, January 1, 2010.
2010s, 2010
Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 1

The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)

“The freedom of poetic license.”
Suggested to be from Pro Publio Sestio (sec. 6: "...my attacking those men with some freedom of expression..."
Disputed
From Best of the Web Today for June 3, 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576363510218079554.html
John H. Freeman, "Entrepreneurs as Organizational Products: Semiconductor Firms and Venture Capital Firms," Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, 1 (1986): 33-52

1952
from the front-page of the website of the Merce Cunningham Trust http://www.mercecunningham.org/merce-cunningham/
Source: 1980s and later, Normal Accidents, 1984, p. 127

Liberty-Equality-Fraternity (1942)

Fox & Friends Weekend, Aug 6, 2017, responding to Congresswoman Maxine Waters

1980s, GNU Manifesto (1985)