Channel THIS Roosevelt!!!
My older sister sent me this snippet - she knows Teddy and Winston are powerful, insightful, and also quite with the times even today:
“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.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
Gotta tell ya - heard any of the candidates today stumble into words so powerful and true?
[nope - too affraid of going back to when Europe hates us more than now is DANGEROUS, eh?]
October 11th, 2008 at 23:11
Agree, Teddy and Winston speeches were great, now if you hear Palin, Obama and McCain speeches are basically attacks and complains.
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October 12th, 2008 at 2:41
Great quote. Like the UK, the politicians are smoke and no fire. Once they get in, it’s the same old stuff. I don’t vote any more, waste of time.
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