Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the founding fathers

Education is useless without the Bible.

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The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields.

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God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the founding fathers

It is alledged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations.  But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine.  They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness.

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the 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.

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the founding fathers

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 priviledges of a free peopple.

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the founding fathers

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws...

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When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, 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.  The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes;

Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.

If a republican 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.

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the founding fathers

If the language can be improved in regularity, so as to be more easily acquired by our own citizens and by foreigners, and thus be rendered a more useful instrument for the propagation of science, arts, civilzation, and Chritianity...

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The goodness of a heart is of infinitely more consequence to society than an elegance of manners; nor will any superficial accomplishments repair the want of principles in the mind.  It is always better to be vulgarly right than politely wrong...

Noah Webster, Educator of the children of the founding fathers

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.

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Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles - And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.

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Two regulations are essential to the continuance of republican goverments: 1 - Such a distribution of lands and such principles of descent and alienation, as shall give every citizen a power of acquiring what his industry merits 2 -  Such a system of education as gives every citizen an opportunity of acquiring knowlege and fitting himself for places of trust - These are fundamental articles; the sine qua non of the existence of the American republics.

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Children should be taught the usual branches of learning; submission to superiors and to laws; the moral or social duties; the history and transactions of their own country; the principles of liberty and government - 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.

The foundation of all free government and of all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth... The education of youth is 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...

Noah Webster, educator to the founding fathers 

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

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