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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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Noah Webster
Age: 84 †
Born: 1758
Born: October 16
Died: 1843
Died: May 28
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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.
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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.
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
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Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
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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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Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.
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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.
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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.
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Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
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There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.
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Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.
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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.
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Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.
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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground
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A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.
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The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.
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A national language is a band of national union.
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