Noah Webster Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

  Noah Webster

  Character, Men, Office

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

• Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

  Noah Webster

  Art, Character, Citizens

• To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

  Noah Webster

  Character, Vices, Citizens

  Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.6

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