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, cr…

- Joel Barlow

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

- Joel Barlow

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

- Joel Barlow

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

- Joel Barlow

[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys t…

- Joel Barlow

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 th…

- Joel Barlow

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

- Joel Barlow

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…

- Joel Barlow