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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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.Noah Webster
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 concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide.
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
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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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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
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The principles of 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 accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.
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