This is true liberty when freeborn men,

Having to advise the public, may speak free:

Which he who can and will deserves high praise:

Who neither can nor will may hold his peace.

What can be juster in a state than this?

Milton—Trans. Horace. Ep. i. 16, 40.


Give me again my hollow tree

A crust of bread, and liberty!

Pope—Imitations of Horace. Bk. II. Satire VI. Line 220.