In my view, the Christian religion is the most imp…

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.

By: Noah Webster

Year: 1828

This quote is from – Preface to the 1828 edition of Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language