Who else thinks this should be forced down the throats off current immigrants?
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
KEEP THIS MOVING
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Bravo.
We have all forgotten, or so it seems, that we are AMERICANS, first and foremost. True we can be of Irish, or Mexican, etc, heritage and we should always be proud of that heritage. But we are AMERICANS first, last and always. If you want to be a Mexican first, move to Mexico. If you want to be an African first, move to Africa. This is America and as the old saying goes..
Love it or Leave It!
Amen brother, the libs oughtta like this one, he he.
every citizen has their own right
every amendment allows any citizen to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't impend on other's rights or violates the law
to "force" anything down anyone's thoughts is a violation of the bill of rights
I respect your right of free speech...
I like Theodore Roosevelt's updated version better. And this one I can actually imagine him p*ssed off when he said it.
"From the melting pot of life in this free land all men and woman of all nations who come hither emerge as Americans and nothing else. They must have renounced completely and without reserve all allegiance to the land from which they or their forefathers came. And it is a binding duty on every citizen of this country in every important crisis to act solidly with all his fellow Americans, having regard only to the honor and interest of America, treating every other nation purely on its conduct in that crisis, without reference to his ancestral predilections or antipathies. If he does not act, he is false to the teachings and lives of Washington and Lincoln; he is not entitled to any part or lot in our country and he should be sent out of it." (Theodore Roosevelt, "The Children of the Crucible" New York, Sept. 9, 1917)
raven s - I would if I could. That Bushwhacker already has my email accounts blocked. If I open another I could send it to him, however he'd just block it too. But make no mistake, I have taken every opportunity to send it to just about every Senator, and Congress member on the hill.
so true, Theodore Roosevelt was a great man and president. you need to email that to our communist president.
Actually, most immigrants do embrace Teddy's wonderful philosophy.
It's the illegal aliens who don't.
It's the "legal" Mexicans who aid and abet illegal aliens who don't.
Send all the flag-burning, viva la mexico ranting, America-hating radicals back to their homeland.
I agree with you/ Roosevelt for the most part. However, while people living here should be American FIRST, I think you must remember that there are limits and extensions. For example, there is nothing wrong with expressing pride in your origins. You can't take that away from people. Although I agree that sometimes pride goes so far that it isolates ethnic subsets from the rest of the populace.
The idea that we should all speak English and English alone is an outdated concept. We live in a rapidly globalizing world. What citizens of other continents have faced forever, the fact that they may need to know the language of people who don't speak theirs, is something that is finally coming to our shores. Being as we are such a large country, we have been sheltered from this until now. While I agree that english has been the unnofficial language of the US, their is nothing wrong with expanding the horizons of our citizens by having more people become multilingual.
And keep in mind, no one is going to force anyone to pick up a spanish dictionary. Those who want to participate will do so, and those that don't won't, and each group will reap the rewards and consequences of their choice.
I agree, and I also think they will never become real Americans, they can not give up that country they love so much, and they have proved their allegiance to Mexico, they fly their flags here. They have no right to protest here in US, they are not legal American citizens. If they intended on being all the above, they would have come here legally in the first place, and I guarantee you that even if the Amnesty bill is past, there is no way these people will come forward and follow the correct process, as they have gotten away with it to long and will continue to not change what they want to do or how they do it. I still think it is cheaper to deport them, than to shell out money for all the expenses it will take to legalize 12 to 20 million people. Yes, I will pass it on.
Nice speech. But a mans actions rarely follow his tongue. This is why slavery continued 100 years after Jefferson wrote these famous words:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Well the thing is, that almost no American now is a real american either... Or did you forget that even your parents or grandparents came from another country? America is a land of immigrants! That makes it such an interesting country, all the cultures come together, just imagine how boring it would be, if everybody as soon as they come to America would forget everything about the country they came from! That would be horrible!
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