Quote of the Day:Teddy Roosevelt on Immigration
“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 person’s becoming in every facet 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.. 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
Popularity: 7% [?]
mike viehl Says:
i wish we would enforce this today.im so tired of riding the trains or going to stores and hearing nothing but chinese,russian and spanish
Posted on August 25th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
chris grisel Says:
Thank you. How refreshing. How American! Please republish on the front page. Someone needs to say this today. We are becoming lke the middle east, a region filled by warring sects and idealogies. It is American to be tolerant of each other, but unless we remain American, that tolerance will disappear. Being American is what makes freedom available for all. That is the genious of it.
Posted on October 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm