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

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

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

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.

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

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.

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.