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.

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

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

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

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.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

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