But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.


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SUSAN HILL
It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
DAVID HUME
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.
ROBERT BROWNING
I was never ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one
VOLTAIRE
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
UNKNOWN
Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
CHRIS WOODING
Once we cross this threshold, we've lost something we can never get back.
BILL EDMONDS
I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.
DANIEL BOONE
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Freedom is lost when the only source of survival is through government.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE
Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you're there, you're lost forever.
TAHEREH MAFI
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximatio...
PAOLA KAUFMANN
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...
SAMUEL SMILES
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...
SAMUEL SMILES
Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
SELENA KITT
I lost you once, I think I can do it again.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can'...
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
JOHN GREIER
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
JOHN P. GRIER
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
GERMAINE GREER
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DON WILLETT
Impression once created it's difficult to maintain it but once lost it's more difficult to regain it...
KHILAN RAMANI
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freed...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
We lost track of two runners. You can only do that once against Sandpoint.
ERIC LOUIS
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MITT ROMNEY
Once fire changes you, that's it, you are changed forever
SOTONYE ANGA
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
VOLTAIRE
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
VOLTAIRE
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
TRENT LOTT
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, b...
HARVEY MACKAY
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily...
DOROTHY THOMPSON
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
GERMAINE GREER
What is there left once you have lost your manliness?
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever.
ABBY MOREL
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SHARRON ANGLE
I lost some weight once, but I found it again in the fridge.
ANONYMOUS
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
NEIL GAIMAN
I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Lim...
JUSTIN AMASH
But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had chan...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
DAVID MCCULLOUGH
Was lost but now I'm found... God predestined to save His lost; not us freely choosing Christ.. Salv...
NORM TOMLINSON
I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
EMO PHILIPS
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
MARION C. GARRETTY
An opportunity is like your virginity, once you've lost it, it's gone…
KLEINJAN REDELINGHUYS
Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
We lost everything at once . . . communications, power grid, infrastructure.
DICK CHENEY
Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act o...
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
JAMES ALTUCHER
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JOHN P. ZENGER
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FRANCES BEINECKE
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RON PAUL
I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
DANIEL BOONE
But words once spoke can never be recalled
WENTWORTH DILLON
... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and o...
EMERY LEE
No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE PROCTER
No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER
Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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I must j...
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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Time lost can never be regained
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be...
JAMES MADISON
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
WALTER SCOTT
Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE PROCTOR
I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold...
WALT WHITMAN
Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.
DAN GROAT
For once I thought I was dead; for once I thought I had lost everything, and for once I thought all ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Our Constitution is the foundation of this Nation, but it's People are the valiant pillars that bear...
J.J. BOWLERS
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
LAMAR S. SMITH
Not all who are lost are lost forever.
JORGE ENRIQUE PONCE
If nothing is done to curb this growing demand now, tigers will be lost from the world forever.
DAWA TSERING
Tragically, two years ago, we came once more to realize that we had let our guard down. We became lo...
CHARLES CAMARDA
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational...
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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by ste...
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WOODROW WILSON
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history...
WOODROW WILSON
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The histo...
WOODROW T. WILSON
But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
RAY BRADBURY
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberti...
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS
Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a...
JOHN ADAMS
Ontario is so far behind in newborn screening that this is a useful baby step, but there are signifi...
JOHN ADAMS
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
"Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS