Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

They had eight children:
Emily Schotten (1790–1861) who married William W. The Speller was arranged so that it could be easily taught to students and it progressed by age. Webster's identification of his project as a "federal language" shows his competing impulses towards regularity and innovation in historical terms.

(October 16 1758 – May 28 1843) was a lexicographer textbook pioneer English spelling reformer political writer editor and prolific author. His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read secularizing their education. Noah Webster Jr.