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Government Quotes by Noah Webster
- ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the…
- It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the…
- But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information…
- [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am…
- If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican…
- The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of…
- In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought…
- 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 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 ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
- 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 Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as…
- 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…
- 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…
- The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida