License Quotes

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

Liberty begets license.

Freedom is not the liberty do anything whatsoever. It is the freedom to do good

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

This relationship between freedom and responsibility has not always been clearly understood. Some ideologies have placed greater importance on the concept of individual freedom, while others on the unquestioning commitment to the social group. Without a proper balance, unrestricted freedom is as dangerous as imposed social responsibility. Great social injustices have resulted from extreme economic freedom and capitalist greed, while at the same time cruel oppression of people's basic liberties has been justified in the name of communist ideals and society's interests. Either extreme is undesirable.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

Anytime Government gives you permission they let you know that you have permission by giving you a permit or a license. If you have a marriage license, what permission do you have to do now that you did not have permission to do before, who gave you that permission, and who gave them the authority to give you that permission in the first place?

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Maybe I can drive until I'm 36 or 37. 40.

Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

Freedom does not mean license.

Education, then, as universally diffused as the elements of God, is the life-blood of our body politic. The intelligence of the people is the one great fact of our civilization and our prosperity, — it is the beating heart of our age and of our land. It is education alone which makes equality possible without anarchy, and liberty without license.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.

The effect of liberty is to let individuals ... do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom but license.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. And freedom is worth fighting for. Because it does mean more than unrestricted grabbing.