"We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans" -Theodore Roosevelt A country must have one official language, if men are to understand each other               -Ayn Rand, philosopher English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.              -Unites States Senator S.I. Hayakawa Our common language is . . . English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.               -Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, compiler of "The Book of Virtues"  The ultimate way to bring this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.  We have but one flag; we must also learn one language, and that language is English.                -President Theodore Roosevelt "Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know" -Margaret Thatcher