Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
 1960 Putting FirstThings First.
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins,That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war,Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
 On the Entry of the Austrians into Naples (1821).