About Noah Webster
Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". He authored a large number of "Blue-Back Speller" books which were used to teach American children how to spell and read. He is also the author for the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
![“[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.” quote by Noah Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/noah-webster-8440_bases_t-he-christian-religion-in-its-purity-is_381346.jpg)
![“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 best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.” quote by Noah Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/noah-webster-8440_bible_the-bible-is-the-chief-moral-cause-of-al_1006101.jpg)
![“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 to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel…” quote by Noah Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45d/noah-webster-8440_attention_the-education-of-youth-should-be-watched_1580813.jpg)
