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

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

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

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

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

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.

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