Taunt him with the license of ink. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 2 ]

Liberty, without wisdom, is license. [ Burke ]

Lying, like license, has its degrees. [ George Sand ]

License they mean when they cry liberty. [ Milton ]

Liberty has no crueller enemy than license. [ French Proverb ]

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Words, however, are things; and the man who accords
To his language the license to outrage his soul
Is controlled by the words he disdains to control. [ Lord Lytton ]

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [ Horace ]

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. [ Goethe ]

The freedom of some is the freedom of the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. [ Rev. W. Jay ]

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license. [ Montaigne ]

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. [ Swift ]