Joel Barlow Quotes

#1. There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Joel Barlow

#2. It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

Joel Barlow

#3. He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

Joel Barlow

#4. 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 feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

Joel Barlow

#5. 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 your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

Joel Barlow

#6. How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

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#7. I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

Joel Barlow

#8. 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 of their oppression.

Joel Barlow