Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.