WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:31:37 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Webster, Noah – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Webster, Noah -- Sketches of American Policy (1785) https://wist.info/webster-noah/29271/ https://wist.info/webster-noah/29271/#respond Thu, 07 May 2015 12:19:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29271 The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.


Noah Webster, Jr. (1758–1843) American lexicographer and author
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