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.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

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

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

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.