All Noah Webster Quotes
- Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property… America
- There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined… Administration
- Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. Always Right
- All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… All
- The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as… All
- When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that… Abuse
- No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights… Any
- The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All
- Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America… Almost Every
- The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. Children
- Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor. Charm
- A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and… Bad
- The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head. Assiduity
- The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The… All