Quotes from Noah Webster

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

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 will not hear reason.

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.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

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.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

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.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

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.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.