Joel Barlow Quotes
Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.
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I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
