Youth Quotes by Noah Webster

8 Youth quotes by Noah Webster

Noah Webster’s eight remarks on youth give a glimpse of his 19th‑century sensibility toward the younger generation. Though limited in number, the quotes reflect his linguistic precision and moral outlook.

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EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline…

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The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on…

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Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that…

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The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual…

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“The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young…

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It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a…

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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating…

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Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

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The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more…

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It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important…

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[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I…

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An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.

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The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and…

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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the…

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Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles… And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor…

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