Bite Sized Wisdom: Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1915 Speech To The Knights of Columbus

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6 Responses to “Bite Sized Wisdom: Theodore Roosevelt”

  1. Tom_with_a_Dream on October 28th, 2005 at 5:10 am

    Exquisite, as always.

    But could you please edit “runin”, or add the [sic] if that was actually how TR pronounced it… (Please delete this sentance once fixed.)

  2. Rick Meyer on October 28th, 2005 at 9:11 am

    Is it just me, or are those people in the background sitting on the telephone/telegraph wires?

  3. Tom_with_a_Dream on October 28th, 2005 at 5:10 am

    pardon me, please delete this too

    (I am fighting troubleshooting Gravatar issues

  4. 2Hotel9 on October 28th, 2005 at 11:10 am

    They do appear to be sitting on the wires. My grandfather had a framed American Eagle print with this quote under the eagles talons.

  5. Porkopolis on October 30th, 2005 at 10:10 am

    And to that end, The Unhyphenated American: Just respond ‘human’ to any ‘race’ question in the next census and starve the bureaucratic beast of the misinformation if feeds on.

  6. History rules. But this will d on December 15th, 2005 at 6:12 am

    &heellip; only it sounds more official and impressive coming from teddy:”There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.” –Teddy Roosevelth/t say anything &heellip;

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