A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.