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America’s strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.