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The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the disci...

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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so...

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all ch...

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A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on e...

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The Original Blue Back Speller

But when thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, a...

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Noah Websters Advice to the Young & Moral Catechism

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slave...

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Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her ...

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

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling o...

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In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomina...

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Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for th...

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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...

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The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon ...

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Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in g...

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Noah Webster

Lexicographer

Born: 1758-10-16

Died: 1843-05-28

Noah Webster (1758-10-16 – 1843-04-28) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, Bible translator and spelling reformer.More