《宋史·列传·卷一百七十七》
假如立即给以高官，不仅亡国的大夫不可以此求生存，而且把自己平生的全部抱负抛弃，那么任用我有什么用呢？ 王积翁想与宋官谢昌元等十人一起请释放文天祥为道士，留梦炎不同意，说 ：文天祥放出后，又在江南号召抗元，置我十人于何地？ 此事于是作罢。
若遽官之，非直亡国之大夫不可与图存，举其平生而尽弃之，将焉用我？ 积翁欲合宋官谢昌元等十人请释天祥为道士，留梦炎不可，曰 天祥出，复号召江南，置吾十人于何地！ 事遂已。
If I can receive the higest rank immediately, not only can’t ministers of the destroyed country seek survival in such a way, and I will have to give up my long-cherished aspirations, then what use is it to appoint me? Wang Jiweng intended to ask Song official Xie Changyuan and nine others to release Wen Tianxiang to be a Taoist priest, but Liu Mengyan disagreed, saying: If Wen Tianxiang is released, he will organize resistance against the Yuan dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River again. Where will he leave the ten of us? The matter was therefore dropped.