Noah Webster
10/16/1758 – 5/28/1843
Connecticut House of Representatives 1800 and again in 1802-1807
Creator of the Websters Dictionary
Founder of the first New York daily newspaper
Connecticut House of Representatives 1800 and again in 1802-1807
Creator of the Websters Dictionary
Founder of the first New York daily newspaper
Founding Fathers
" 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. 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. "
( Source: 1828, in the preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language )
" Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God ( Exodus 18:21 ) If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted. If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. "
" The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men. "
" 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. "
" Education is useless without the Bible. "
" The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields. "
( Source: 1828, in the preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language )
" Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God ( Exodus 18:21 ) If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted. If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. "
" The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men. "
" 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. "
" Education is useless without the Bible. "
" The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields. "
