Noah Webster Quotes

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• Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can…
• Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to…
• Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America,…
• The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than…
• The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the…
• The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the…
• The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.
• The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The…
• Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the…
• The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.
• The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
• Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of…
• Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally…
• In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of…
• The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law…
• The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten…
• To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in…
• It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible,…

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