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.
Noah WebsterIn 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 WebsterTyranny 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 WebsterDiscipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
Noah WebsterThe laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.
Noah WebsterNothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.
Noah Webster