A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.
I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.
People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.
When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.
I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.
The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.
Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.
When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.
The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
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