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


(Picture: Aurora borealis mt desert island from bar harbor maine, Frederic Edwin Church)