Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
    Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.
    J.R. Pole (b. 1922)