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- A national language is a band of national union. — Noah Webster
- As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness… — Edward Sapir
- No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical… — Edward Sapir
- They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a… — George Mikes
- Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes
- Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick