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Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet, diplomat, and politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian.

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

Education, People, Raising, Teach, Theatre

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

Charms, Meals, Morning, Sing, Sweet

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

Behinds, Left, Left Behind, Mankind, Millions

[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 moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Disuse, Effect, Gun, Hands, Men, Power

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

Religion, Save, Soul, Thinking, Thinks

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.

Art, Education, Ideas, Liberal, Mind, Open

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

Advantages, Arms, Disadvantage, Gun, Use

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 revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Arms, Disadvantage, Government, Gun, Revenge, Society

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