Leaves of Grass

BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS

To the States

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.

Walt Whitman

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