02-19-2026, 06:15 AM
“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," he added.
"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.”
The original document -- with the correct date, not 1907 -- can be found at the Theodore Roosevelt Center here.
Nor was it the only time Roosevelt expressed these beliefs, as Snopes noted:
"Let us say to the immigrant not that we hope he will learn English, but that he has got to learn it," he said in 1916.
"Let the immigrant who does not learn it go back. He has got to consider the interest of the United States, or he should not stay here. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend upon his knowing English and observing American standards. The employer cannot be permitted to regard him only as an industrial asset."
What, pray tell, would Roosevelt think of our modern uniparty elites, who ask who will pick our fruit if we don't allow illegal immigrants to freely cross our southern border and become industrial assets?
Teddy had mucho common sense and not as much duplicity.
"But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American," he added.
"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.”
The original document -- with the correct date, not 1907 -- can be found at the Theodore Roosevelt Center here.
Nor was it the only time Roosevelt expressed these beliefs, as Snopes noted:
"Let us say to the immigrant not that we hope he will learn English, but that he has got to learn it," he said in 1916.
"Let the immigrant who does not learn it go back. He has got to consider the interest of the United States, or he should not stay here. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend upon his knowing English and observing American standards. The employer cannot be permitted to regard him only as an industrial asset."
What, pray tell, would Roosevelt think of our modern uniparty elites, who ask who will pick our fruit if we don't allow illegal immigrants to freely cross our southern border and become industrial assets?
Teddy had mucho common sense and not as much duplicity.
