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TR's quote ... he said....
We located the quote you inquired of as being from Theodore Roosevelt’s message to the President of the American Defense Society written January 3, 1919; last message, read at a meeting in New York on Jan 5, 1919. Our source for the citation is The Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia (Theodore Roosevelt Association and Meckler, 1989), 13 and 243.
The quote that has been circulated and cited as of late is not only misdated (1907 as opposed to 1919) but some of the wording is juxtaposed in different order from the original.
I hope that this is of some help.
Best regards,
John
John Staudt, Ph.D.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
Below are the quotations as they appeared as extracted from the original message:
____________. I cannot be with you, and so all I can do
is to wish you Godspeed. There must be no sagging back
in the fight for Americanism merely because the war is
over. There are plenty of persons who have already made
the assertion that they believe the American people have
a short memory and that they intend to revive all the
foreign associations which most directly interfere with
the complete Americanization of our people. . . .
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. (To
President of the American Defense Society, January 3,
1919; last message, read at meeting in New York,
January 5, 1919.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 554-555; Bishop II,
474.
____________. We should insist that if the immigrant
who comes here does in good faith become an
American and assimilates himself to us he shall be
treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is
an outrage to discriminate against any such man
because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in
very fact an American and nothing but an American. If
he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin
and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't
doing his part as an American. There can be no divided
allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language
here, and that is the English language, for we intend to
see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans,
of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a
polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one
soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
(To President of the American Defense Society,
January 3, 1919; last message, read at meeting in New
York, January 5, 1919.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 554; Bishop"One Flag ... One Language ... ONE COUNTRY"....... Teddy Roosevelt
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