Leaves of Grass (1860)/Walt Whitman's Caution

by Walt Whitman

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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.