This is from the preface of the first edition of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828:
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
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