Before modern evil started corrupting knowledge......... The man who started Websters Dictionary:
Quotes by Noah Webster: 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. It is the sincere desire of the writer 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. 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. 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. [A prophetic statement] 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 public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.
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