• 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
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 1819-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. roughness
2. defiance
3. people
4. spirit

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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. by : Walt Whitman

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