"There are many advantages in their being accustomed……" — Joel Barlow
"There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage."
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9 Quotes by Joel Barlow
Joel Barlow has 9 quotes on this site.
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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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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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It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
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More Accustomed Quotes
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't…
— Terrence Trammell
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
— Milarepa
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not…
— Brother Lawrence
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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