It's Walt Whitman's Birthday

"Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves."
-preface to the Leaves of Grass.

Here's another Whitman gem:

The true government is much simpler than is supposed, and abstains from much more. Nine tenths of the laws passed every winter at the Federal Capitol, and all the State Capitols, are not only unneeded laws, but positive nuisances, jobs got up for the service of special classes of persons.

Who knew that Whitman was an anti-government libertarian?