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. Noah Webster More Quotes by Noah Webster More Quotes From Noah Webster Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. Noah Webster army gun country 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. Noah Webster evil men book The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure. Noah Webster guardian insecure law 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. Noah Webster knowledge-learning community heart The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry. Noah Webster religious father hands Nothing 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 important names religion 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. Noah Webster law stones two But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young. Noah Webster parent young children It is alleged 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. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . . Noah Webster hate views men The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. Noah Webster scripture principles law To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God. Noah Webster legs would-be men As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable. Noah Webster community office men The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament. Noah Webster political education boys There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet. Noah Webster rights law men The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people. Noah Webster real wisdom class Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. Noah Webster relief compassion blessing A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive. Noah Webster military law people The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. Noah Webster textbooks fields america Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion. Noah Webster persuasion spirit mean Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. Noah Webster guilty crime men
