“Our country, our nation is built by two institutions, the state and the language. A language whose epicenter today is no longer on these banks of the Seine, but probably much more towards the Congo River basin.”

2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)

Widely attributed to Shaw begin31 (187ning in the 1940s, esp. after appearing in the November 1942 Reader’s Digest, the quotation is actually a variant of "Indeed, in many respects, she [Mrs. Otis] was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" from Oscar Wilde's 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost".
Misattributed
Variant: The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.

Afterword, p. 172
The House Of Commons At Work (1993)

Source: Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002), p. 20

On conclusion of case Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union — cited in [Goldsmith, Jack L., Tim Wu, 2006, Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World, Oxford University Press, 22, 0195152662]

Source: "Reflections on institutional theories of organization,." 2008, p. 790

Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 94

Variant translation: We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Source: J. Steur, Netherlands. Volume 63 Article from 1959. Quoted from J. Vuylsteke, "Flemish Belgium since 1830: Studies and sketches collected by the general board of the Willemsfonds on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 1905", Willemsfonds, 1905, p. 222. https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_nee003195901_01/_nee003195901_01_0114.php King Leopold II and the Queen are invited by the mayor of Brussels, Karel Buls, to attend the first performance in the renovated Flemish theatre, where he gives a speech in Flemish. This was followed by thunderous applause such as 'Long live our Flemish King!'