"...the moral principles and percepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. If men would universally cultivate these religious affections and virtuous dispositions, with as much diligence as they cultivate human science ... the world would soon become a terrestrial paradise."
"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...."
Noah Webster
