Quotes on Curfew

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.