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Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.

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Exercise, Men, Hands

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But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

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Children, Parent, Young

"Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families".

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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.

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Exercise, Men, Voting

Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

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Real, Men, Support

Noah Webster (1823). “Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States”, p.19

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The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

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Wise, Book, Men

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It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it is the duty as it is the object, of government to protect every man in this enjoyment.

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Men, Duty, Protect

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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.

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Wisdom, Men, Dollars

Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.276

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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.

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Education, Law, Preaching The Gospel

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The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

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Rome, Republic, Causes

Noah Webster (1790). “A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects”, p.331

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[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

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Christian, Government, Society

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

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Christian, Liberty, Principles

Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.299

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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.

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Book, Men, Evil

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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of Christ and his apostles, in it primitive simplicity and purity, unencumbered with the trappings of power and the pomp of ceremonies, is the surest basis of a republican government.

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Christian, Government, Europe

Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

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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.

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Men, Would Be, Legs

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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.

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Country, Sacrifice, Men

Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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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.

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Country, School, People

Noah Webster (1790). “A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects”, p.9

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To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

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Character, Vices, Citizens

Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.6

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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.

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Life, Wisdom, Heart

Noah Webster (1977). “A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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

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Men, Guilty, Crime

Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.559

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It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.

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Education, Country, Government

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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.

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Christian, Children, Government

Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.291

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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.

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Law, Two, Stones

Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.39

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

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Power, Weakness, Always Wrong

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

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Law, Scripture, Principles

Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

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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.

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Men, Two, Fellow Man

Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.296

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Born: October 16, 1758
Died: May 28, 1843
Occupation: Lexicographer
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