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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 in all social transactions. (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 to be instructed (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 and privileges of a free people (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 in all social transactions (Noah Webster Quotes)
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. (Noah Webster Quotes)
As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable. (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 to be instructed. (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 and privileges of a free people. (Noah Webster Quotes)
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties (Noah Webster Quotes)
The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head (Noah Webster Quotes)
A national language is a band of national union (Noah Webster Quotes)
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic (Noah Webster Quotes)
Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow (Noah Webster Quotes)
Ability is active power, or power to perform (Noah Webster Quotes)
An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet (Noah Webster Quotes)
When the will of man is raised above law it is always tyranny and despotism, whether it is the will of a bashaw or of bastard patriots (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 contained in the Bible (Noah Webster Quotes)
The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property (Noah Webster Quotes)
It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it is the duty as it is the object, of government to protect every man in this enjoyment (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 our system of education (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 and gospel rest for success (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country (Noah Webster Quotes)
The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure (Noah Webster Quotes)
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion (Noah Webster Quotes)
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 never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state (Noah Webster Quotes)
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration... The body must perspire, or must be out of order (Noah Webster Quotes)
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