Battle Quote by Edward R. Murrow

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language…

— John F. Kennedy

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer…

— Anonymous

“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or…

— Andrew Dalby

“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”

— Kevin Hearne

“A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.”

— Max Weinreich

Story of the english language

— Harry Reasoner

“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”

— Jack Lynch

“of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have…

— Charles Dickens

“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like…

— Alex Garland

“the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its”

— Omar El Akkad

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a…

— Edward R. Murrow

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

— Louis Aragon