The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

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.