Noah Webster Quote

"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, 'just men who will rule in the fear of God.' The preservation of [our] government depends on the faithful discharge of this Duty; 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. If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws."

by:	Noah Webster (1758-1843) American patriot and scholar, author of the first dictionary of American English usage (1806) and the author of the 1828 edition of the dictionary that bears his name.
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Categories:	Democracy, God, Government, Honor, Integrity, Justice, Law, Religion, Responsibility, Virtue, Duty
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It's true, just look around. How does anyone know where they are going unless they look at where they have been!  -- allen t, pittsboro
The downfall of America summed up in one quote that says it all.  -- Anon
The election of the fraud and foreigner, the president usurper, Obama/Soetoro/Obama, proves the United States is under a curse, is mad, having failed to uphold the laws of God and will suffer the consequences for it.  -- David Ben-Ariel, Toledo
That I could rate this 100 times. Divine commands here were earlier interpreted to be natural law (that cause which has effect, that which occurs with accordant regularity or uniform rapidity). By way of example: gravity, fiscal applications, science, math, man's lawfully definable movements, etc. - Jefferson's 'we hold this truth to be self evident'. The United States being a Christian nation does not infer that a majority of its people believe in Christ but rather, laws, rights, etc. are beyond the ability of mere mortal man to create, alter, amend, or extinguish. The founders chose to exemplify the point by drawing on Judeo / Christian history to establish a lawful existence through a representative republic. The state of freedom and liberty's decay in the US proves Webster's assessment.  -- Mike, Norwalk
Turns out that we're not alone in our realizations...In 2008 American's bought over 12 million firearms and over a billion rounds of ammunition. Gee, how come? Because the quote above represents what is becoming common knowledge, that's how come...  -- J Carlton, Calgary
'gads, another "birther" surfaces from their hole in the ground... amazing how King George W the deserter gets elected by gross voter fraud and that is wonderful... but when a middle of the road black man actually gets elected the lunies come out to cry foul...  -- Anonymous, Reston, VA, US
Why does he need to bring God into it - yet another example of mans inability to be responsible for his own actions.  -- RBESRQ
"A middle of the road blackman", Anonymous, are you totally insane. He's so far left he's out of the ball park, along with loonies like Pelosi, Reed, Boxer, Waxman, and the rest. If Obama isn't a Marxist, he'll do till we can find one.  -- jim k, austin
Jim K, its worse than that - Obama is not even an American. And he works for the Globalists, not Americans. Another puppet leader edging us ever closer to slavery.  -- J Carlton, Calgary
Unless and until we take responsibility as citizens and demand that campaign finance stop corrupting the process we deserve what we get. We had better wake up soon or it will take a real revolution to restore the republic.  -- Michele Mathews, Galax Va.
Carlton it is so wrong and I guess just plain UGLY of you to say that Obama is not an American. Such statements as that are what make this a lousy country. You don't even live here. I believe not only is your statement a LIE it is hate speech.  -- Waffler
I don't have a problem with it. 'God' is not the point -- would RBESRQ agree if it said 'just men who will rule in the fear of Karma'? Or any fear of retribution from the honorable? Webster merely speaks of the philosophical doctrine that 'as we sow, so shall we reap' -- is it not the same as 'do unto others as you would have done unto you' -- which is in the Upanishads (older than the Bible)? It seems like a knee-jerk reaction to reject something because a person uses the word 'God' to express one's highest conscientious ideals when you indeed hold the same ideals for integrity and honor.  -- E Archer, NYC
And just an aside, Obama hardly is a man of honor -- in fact we haven't had an honorable man in the White House for a LONG time. Why do we keep electing LIARS?! Or better, why are our choices only choices between one charlatan and another?  -- E Archer, NYC
Waffler...which nation's passport was Obama flying around the middle east on when in his twenties? It wasn't an American one, was it? Nope! He is not an American...I don't hate him for "that"...I hate him because he is a communist. And I have lost most of my respect for a system that allows its own laws to be broken to put a communist in power. Oh and by the way...I can live in the US anytime I want to. I'm a citizen.  -- J Carlton, Calgary
Hey there Waffler the only word that belongs to describe speech is FREE, Not hate. The idea of hate speech makes as much sense as dry water... or gay marriage. There is no such thing. Hate is objective not subjective.. Put away the Kool-Aid and man-up.  -- JJim, America
Interesting construction Jim and I will grant you that it is maybe true, hate speech is free speech. But lies are lies. Obama was born in Hawaii to an American. I don't know about visa and pass port laws concerning legal reisidents (green carders) versus citizens. When Obama was in Indonesia his step-daddy was an Indonesia and he was like Carlton except for being a child a legal resident of that country. If he traveled with his family and Indonesia step father while he was a child it seems very possible that he might have Indonesian papers. I still think lies are hate speech, free hate speech but still hate speech. You can still be sued for lies under libel laws, so lies are not entirely free, you may have to pay up in court. So go have your silly fun and JJim man-up later.  -- Waffler, Smith
Kenya and Indonesia may both recognize Obama as a citizen of theirs that does not make him not a citizen of the United States the land of his and his mothers birth. Kenya may recognize him because it is the land of his fathers birth, and Indonesia may recognize him because it is the land it which he lived with his family for a number of years. What Kenya and Indonesia do has no effect or control on what the United States of America does, which is OBEY THE LAW which proclaims you a citizen when you are born here or if you are born elsewhere of an American parent. The only way to lose your American citizenship is if you apply for citizenship to another country with the intent of giving up your USA citizenship. Gusy with the mental block Carlton espouses have just got to get up to speed and move on.  -- Waffler, Smith
Barack O Changey Boy is "not" an American citizen : http://www.scribd.com/doc/7817311/Obamas-Birth-Place....and that's just one of hundreds of sources. Waffler, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'm willing to sell you cheap....  -- J Carlton, Calgary
Archer, good point. But, I'm afraid it doesn't wash because most of your example do not provide a power above yourself. Yes the Upanishads were before the bible even before Buddha they are derived from the Vedic traditions and they go back 4000 years. Especially the verse about "doing unto others" - you see they even plagiarized in those days.  -- RBESRQ
Waffler, once upon a time, when the controversy over Obama's citizenship began to heat up, 2 separate birth certificates were posted online from 2 separate hospitals in Hawaii. hmmm Both were taken down within hours of discovering the oops. One of the documents lives on as the real thing when no documents existed just months earlier. Is it the real thing? No one can prove a negative. (you can't prove one way or the other that he was born in Hawaii if there was no certificate) With the resources of such a super corrupt government, a birth certificate can easily be made and put in place where no document existed before. There is a lot of evidence, testimony, data, circumstantial information, etc. demonstrating that Obama is not a U.S. citizen. Most of such can have examinations and fabrications to the contrary. I believe, whether or not Obama is a U.S. citizen, (he may have been born in Hawaii even as unlikely as it seems) it will never be able to be proved contrary to the corrupt statist theocracies desires.  -- Mike, Norwalk
Mike no reputable person is engaing in the debate concerning Obama's citizenship. McCain should be the first to raise a stink. Not a word from his camp. Weirdos (sorry Carlton I don't mean to include you in my dereision) but weirdos will always question this. Yeah they need to get a life!  -- Waffler, Smith

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