Noah Webster
1758-1843 — Served in the American revolution . . . His grammatical Institute of the English Language in 3 parts — speller, grammar, and reader — was the first of many publications that made him for many years the chief American Authority on English . . . Wrote in 1785 Sketches of American Policy proposing the adoption of a constitution . . . His work, The American Dictionary of the English Language (1820) helped standardize American pronunciation.

"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."[9]

"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. . .."[47]

"It is the sincere desire of the writer [Noah Webster] that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion."[1]

"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. . .."[23]

"It is extremely important to our nation, in a political as well as religious view, that all possible authority and influence should be given to the scriptures, for these furnish the best principles of civil liberty, and the most effectual support of republican government. The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by it's 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. . .."[23]

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