Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

language-share-core-identity-citizens-ticket-full-participation-american

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.

S. I. Hayakawa's Popular Quotes

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

- S. I. Hayakawa

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

- S. I. Hayakawa

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

- S. I. Hayakawa

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

- S. I. Hayakawa

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

- S. I. Hayakawa

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

- S. I. Hayakawa

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves …

- S. I. Hayakawa

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

- S. I. Hayakawa

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…

- S. I. Hayakawa