Quote

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Noah Webster

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Noah Webster
Age: 84 †
Born: 1758
Born: October 16
Died: 1843
Died: May 28
Journalist
Lexicographer
Linguist
Politician
Writer
Noah Webster
Jr.
Perform
Active
Ability
Power

More quotes by Noah Webster

Image
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.
Noah Webster
Image
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
Noah Webster
Image
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
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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.
Noah Webster
Image
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