Posted On: November 7, 2005, 3:26 pm CST

Posted By: LH

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907:
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes in good faith becomes and 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 orgin, 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 civilzation, 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 to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt 1907.