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Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. -- Cynthia Ozick
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. -- Edward Sapir
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. -- Edward Sapir
A national language is a band of national union. -- Noah Webster
Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point? -- Tucker Carlson
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. -- Joseph de Maistre
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. -- George Mikes
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. -- Charlie Waite
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. -- Slobodan Milosevic
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. -- Jomo Kenyatta
They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth. -- George Mikes

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