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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 supreme confidence in themselves, — and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Source:'I say That the Spirit,' American Politics (1856)
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Walt Whitman Quotes
  • Name: Walt Whitman
  • Profession: Poet, Essayist, Journalist
  • Born: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
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