"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in the good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on the 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 persons becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American.....there can be no allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else, isnt an American at all. We have no room but for one flag, the American flag. We have no room but for 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."
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
2006-06-17
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