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

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

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

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.

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

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.