There Is Only One Thing Age Can

The Language We Share Is At The Core Of Our Identity As Citizens, And Our Ticket To Full Participation In American Political Life. We Can Speak Any Language We Want At The Dinner Table, But English Is The Language Of Public Discourse, Or The Marketplace And Of The Voting Booth.

Few People...have Had Much Training In Listening. The Training Of Most Oververbalized Professional Intellectuals Is In The Opposite Direction. Living In A Competitive Culture, Most Of Us Are Most Of The Time Chiefly Concerned With Getting Our Own Views Across, And We Tend To Find Other People's Speeches A Tedious Interruption Of The Flow Of Our Own Ideas.

In A Very Real Sense, People Who Have Read Good Literature Have Lived More Than People Who Cannot Or Will Not Read.

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.

Language Is A Unifying Instrument Which Binds People Together. When People Speak One Language They Become As One, They Become A Society.