There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this…

Walt Whitman
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ✨ Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index, p.2148, NYU Press
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ✨ Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index, p.2148, NYU Press

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