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…

- Noah Webster

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or negle…

- Noah Webster

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fai…

- Noah Webster

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life…

- Noah Webster

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

- Noah Webster

Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In Americ…

- Noah Webster

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

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline …

- Noah Webster

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the pub…

- Noah Webster