Noah Webster, the pioneer lexicographer, when the first edition of the dictionary bearing his name was published, spoke of the Book he considered so much greater than the one he had just completed:
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
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.”