"It is because the people are citizens that……" — Joel Barlow
"It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed."
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Joel Barlow
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9 Quotes by Joel Barlow
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In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it…
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The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to…
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The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long…
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[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of…
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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
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There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
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I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of…
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A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves,…
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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all…
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed,…
— Buffalo Bill
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As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated…
— John O. Brennan
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— John O. Brennan
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution.…
— Akhenaton
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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend…
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people…
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We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down…
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