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.

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.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

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

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.