Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

The day a race ceases to express its thought and its sentiments in that language which has grown with it and which took form with its ethnic temperament, it is lost as a race. The preservation of its language is absolutely necessary to the preservation of the race, of its genius, its character and it's temperament.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.