Thread: TEDDY ROOSEVELT WAS RIGHT ALL THOSE YEARS AGO

Are we "SLOW LEARNERS" or what?

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

"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

ksymonnsr, thank you for posting this.
GWB would never have the COURAGE to say this.

Wish Teddy Roosevelt was here with us today. I guess in a way he is, becasue we're reading his words.

Sure like his way of thinking.
Don't say much for the present day President, does it?

Teddy was a fighter,and very under rated as one of our greatest presidents. Can you imagine what these cry baby liberals would say if that statement was made today. The ideals of this country have been sold out by the baby boomers. Before anyone gets upset I don't mean all the baby boomers, but that is who's running the country now.

I just read a biography of TR. Our current President looks like a four year old in comparison to that great man! TR was human and had flaws like all the rest of us, but he was a billion times' better president than the idiot we have in office now!! If our country ever needed good leaders like TR, it's RIGHT NOW!!!