Walt Whitman - Walt Whitman's Caution

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, <br /> Resist much, obey little; <br /> Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; <br /> Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever <br /> afterward resumes its liberty.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/walt-whitman-s-caution/