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There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

— Ezra Stiles

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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 the biggest market.

— Norman Spinrad

Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.

— Arthur Capper

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

— Melania Trump

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

— Richard Flanagan

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

— Bill Bryson

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

— Stephen Fry

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

— John Shadegg

✗Opposing Perspectives

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? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

— Martin Jacques

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

— Henry Lawson