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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. | |
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