Edward R. Murrow Quotes on Language
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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The politician is : trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
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Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
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Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
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Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.