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Letter "N" » Noah Webster Quotes
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
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«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.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«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.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«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.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«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 bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.»
Author: Noah Webster
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«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 concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«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.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«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.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
«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, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
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