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To: raybbr

>>Whether born in America or immigrating to America, each individual must choose to support or oppose American principles. If the principles of your heritage, your homeland, are more important than American principles, then stay in your homeland where those principles are welcome. America has it’s own principles and values and you will be expected to adopt them, one and all, upon asking to become an “American”.<<

“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


8 posted on 08/19/2007 8:21:08 AM PDT by B4Ranch ( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.")
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To: B4Ranch
NO MORE hyphenated Americans.

Do you want to be “AMERICAN”, yes or no?

Leave your garbage in the country you left behind!

13 posted on 08/19/2007 8:26:32 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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