“Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size.”

A hopeful sentiment. I hope that's the case more often than not. An exception to the rule might be a Christian Freeman rejecting natural law, justice, freedom, liberty and the principles and doctrines of Jesus the Christ in favor of the God of the Amorites (i.e. the occupying statist theocracy that infests this land).

The only caveat may be the extant or absent property of elasticity which seems to be in limited supply.

Especially if it is true! ;-)