America Quote by Ezra Stiles

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's…

— Norman Spinrad

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

— Edwin Newman

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain?…

— Martin Jacques

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

— Robert Burchfield

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

— Steve Guttenberg

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and…

— Rowan Atkinson

What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are…

— Barack Obama

I think it's important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our…

— Toni Duggan

We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause…

— Rush Limbaugh

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen…

— S. I. Hayakawa