Got this off of the C&R list today.
"In the first place we should insist that if the
immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for
it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man
because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this
is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an
American, and nothing but an American...There can be
no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an
American, but something else also, isn't an American
at all. We have room for but one flag, the American
flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes
all wars against liberty and civilization, just as
much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to
which we are hostile...We have room for but one
language here, and that is the English language...and
we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
"In the first place we should insist that if the
immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for
it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man
because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this
is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an
American, and nothing but an American...There can be
no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an
American, but something else also, isn't an American
at all. We have room for but one flag, the American
flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes
all wars against liberty and civilization, just as
much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to
which we are hostile...We have room for but one
language here, and that is the English language...and
we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
