Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass

A Walt Whitman Collection

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.