“Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.” PeopleIfsDifferentFeelingsGovernmentSpeakLanguageUnitedOpinionFellowsRepresentativesPublic OpinionDifferent LanguagesRepresentative GovernmentFellow Feeling Book:Considerations on Representative Government Source: Considerations on Representative Government
“Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.” SelfPhilosophyGovernmentWantedChristianPoliticalLanguageNationsGrowthVirtueGrowingReflectionTraditionEnlightenedFacultyRomeSelf ControlAntiquitySelf-governmentIncorrigiblePolitical Wisdom Author:Lord Acton
“The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.” FeelsWellsGovernmentLanguageBasesIndependentFormerPacksNational Language Author:Jomo Kenyatta
“I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.” PeopleIfsGivingSoulStatesGovernmentPoliticalAsksSpeakLanguageDemandHighestConstitutionGive MeCuriosityAgentsWelfareGentlemanCharacteristicsAnxiousSovereigntyExclusiveLeading MeCompactVenerationSolicitudeConfederationPublic Welfare Author:Patrick Henry
“It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications for election to the House of Commons or appointment to the Senate, but maybe it will have to come to this as a price we must pay for equality of the two great language groups of our founding fathers.” TryingTwoGovernmentFatherHouseLanguagePayGroupsElectionOfficialsSenateLegislationFoundingOur Founding FathersAppointmentsQualificationsHouse Of CommonsFoolhardy Author:Judy LaMarsh
“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle” PeopleSaidSeemsGovernmentEarthLanguageSawsSpeedExpectedAddressesSubtleAmbitiousConquestOmissionConjunctionsGettysburgGettysburg Address Book:Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase Source: Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase