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

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

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

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

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

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.