Joel Barlow Quotes

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• In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of…
• The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal…
• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to…
• [The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the…
• How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
• There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
• I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.
• A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause…
• It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

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