Christian Eriksen Quotes

We hereby prohibit the Passage of all Manner of People… except only the Lords and other great men of the Realm, and true and notable merchants and the Kings soldiers … out of the said Realm without the King’s special license.

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely ...

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

There are no doors that we cannot unlock.

Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.

It didn't take very long for me to feel like the country radio box was a little too small. So that's what 'Don't Fence Me In' was all about.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

May as well leave the door open.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

I think people were a little bit too concerned about what I would or would not be allowed to say. So let me just get that out of the way and get on to the business of telling, you know, a story, or two, or three, or 15. And also to say, "Okay, look. Here it is, don't worry about it. The restrictions and the watered-down and all the stuff that you thought was gonna happen really isn't the case." So we done got that out the way, and now we can just kind of move on.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.