President Theodore Roosevelt 1907

He always spoke boldly, and everyone
knew he meant exactly what he said.

      "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 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 is also something else, 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."