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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

173. Walt Whitman’s Caution

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little;

Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;

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