Default Quote by Dorothy Thompson

“When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.”

— Dorothy Thompson

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

— Josh Billings

...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can…

— John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

— Algernon Sidney

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats…

— Robert Higgs

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

— John Adams

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

— David Hume

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

— Learned Hand

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution,…

— Learned Hand