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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