WORDS OF WISDOM

Let me introduce you to one of the greatest scholars in our nation's history.  His name is Noah Webster.

He was born in 1758 in Connecticut.  He graduated from Yale in 1778 and became a teacher.  He believed American children needed American textbooks so he wrote, "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" which sold 100 million copies and was used extensively in schools for over 100 years.

He helped found Amherst College.  His best known work was the "American Dictionary of the English Language" published in 1828.  He also wrote the "American Bible"

He fought for copyright laws, a strong federal government, universal education, abolition of slavery, and wrote many other textbooks.  He died in 1843.

I want you to know about the man who wrote the following quotes:

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles...to this we owe our free constitutions of government."

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. 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."

We would do well to remember the principles that drove our founding fathers.