Occupation: Former United States Senator Birth: July 18, 1906 Death: February 27, 1992
Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's..
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living….
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 opportun….
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure..
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country..
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance..
America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create….
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us..
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us..
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting..
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing..
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, politi….
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor..
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place..
You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to a….
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic gr….
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read..
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose..
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it….
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words..
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see….