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

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.

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

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.

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

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

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