Posts Tagged ‘English language’

Roosevelt’s Last Words to the Public

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Teddy

 

“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, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul [sic] loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”

 The Chicago Daily Tribune. “Abolish Hyphen Roosevelt’s Last Words to Public.” 7 January 1919 (p. 4).

Abolish the Hyphen

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

 

Theodore Roosevelt and The Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt and The Rough Riders

 “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, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and 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.”  [Sic]

 

The Chicago Daily Tribune (January 7, 1919). “Abolish Hyphen Roosevelt’s Last Words to Public.” p. 4.
 

1905

1905

 

Every American citizen needs to read this!

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

 

Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907:

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

“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.” (emphasis and spacing added)

Theodore Roosevelt 1907