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

Liberty is never safe.

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

It is a very comfortable reflection to the lovers of liberty, that this peculiar privilege of Britain is of a kind that cannot easily be wrested from us, but must last as long as our government remains, in any degree, free and independent. It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received. But, if the liberty of the press ever be lost, it must be lost at once. The general laws against sedition and libelling are at present as strong as they possibly can be made. Nothing can impose a farther restraint, but either the clapping an Imprimatur upon the press, or the giving to the court very large discretionary powers to punish whatever displeases them. But these concessions would be such a bare-faced violation of liberty, that they will probably be the last efforts of a despotic government. We may conclude, that the liberty of Britain is gone for ever when these attempts shall succeed.

Unlimited freedom kills freedom.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Freedom is never very safe.

Security without liberty is called prison.

What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?

Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.

You’ll miss your freedom,

Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in any thing better than despotism.