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  • History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. -- Richard Lamm
  • All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is. -- Abbas Kiarostami
  • Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. -- Bobby Jindal
  • I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. -- Rick Renzi
  • It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language. -- Cheech Marin
  • Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. -- Robert Reich
  • Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer. -- Nydia Velazquez
  • The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. -- Haile Selassie
  • In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation. -- Jeff Hawkins
  • Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. -- George Will
  • A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation. -- Thomas Davis
  • And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. -- John Hookham Frere
  • Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. -- John Ciardi
  • When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. -- Lytton Strachey
  • We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger. -- Richard Riley
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