"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."
— English language

January 1, 1970

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Winston Churchill, speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (September 6, 1943); in Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (1974), vol. 7, p. 6825.