They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant i…

Samuel Johnson
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1810). The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Phillips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire, p.102
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