Quotes by Noah Webster

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.