“Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.” IfsStatesLanguageGoes OnCitizensSixImpositionBilingualism Author:Pierre Trudeau
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.” WorldYearsBelieveChildrenBookCountryJoyLanguageStarsGoneCitizensOur ChildrenUnionsWideMinistersFollyFlagsMonarchsStripes Book:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens” PeopleIfsLanguageCitizensThirdsIndiaRateStrikesTreatedOfficialsThunderHindi Author:C. N. Annadurai
“It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.” LongCountrySpeakLanguageLibertyCitizensGoverning Author:African Spir
“Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.” IfsSpeakLanguageNationsToo MuchIgnoranceCitizensScientistComplainingIgnorantMapsPeculiarSyriaProteinVenezuelaProton Author:Martin Rees
“Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” HumansStatesLanguageParentBornNaturalHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesCitizensConstitutionSovereigntyAllegianceOwing Author:John Bingham
“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.” WantPoliticalSpeakLanguageShareIdentityCitizensTablesDinnerCoreVotingTicketsParticipationDiscourseMarketplacePolitical LifeDinner TablePublic Discourse Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to pursue happiness, and I hope all of them decide to stay and become American citizens, but I want them to become American. And part of becoming American involved English. It is vital historically to assert and establish that English is the common language at the heart of our civilization.” WantHeartPersonsLanguageCommonBecomingCitizensInvolvedCivilizationPursueCherishAmerican CitizensCommon Language Author:Newt Gingrich
“America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.” AmericaLanguageNationsCommonGenerationsCitizensConstitutionSeparationEnglish LanguageGlueCommon Denominator Author:James Traficant
“A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.” ThinkingGovernmentActionFormLanguageNationsMoralFourCitizensRepublicanDemandStandardsAffairPopulationCriticalDebateEducatedCodeMutualResolutionEthicalManifestBeneficialCritical ThinkingForms Of GovernmentInitiateMoral Code Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.” ShouldReadingHouseLanguageCitizensOfficialsRequirements Author:Ernest Istook
“You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines they want every other citizen to have justice. So you might say they're all working together to do one thing, namely to make sure every citizen has justice. Now that's not the only interest they all have, but it's the single thing they're all trying to do. In my language, they've striving toward one single end, the end of justice for all citizens.” IfsWantTryingEndsReasonMightTogetherLanguageInterestJusticeActingOne ThingCitizensStriveDoctrineWorking TogetherRegimesComprehensiveJustice For All Author:John Rawls