“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

“...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.”

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.”

“... once something is shattered, it can never be put back together in its original shape. Undoubtedly some pieces are lost or fit into incorrect places. The whole will never be as strong as it was once before.”

“For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.”