This was contributed by a very good friend of mine. It was written by Walt Whitman in his Leaves of Grass.

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, Leaves of Grass