Teddy Roosevelt made this statement

[Racerbvd]

Teddy Roosevelt made this statement in 1907, even money says he would be removed from public life if he said it in todays politically correct environment.

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"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 man's becoming in very fact 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, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...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

[IROC]

Hmmm..and yet President Bush (Sr) said that he didn't believe that atheists should be considered US citizens. That sounds like discrimination based on creed to me. I guess discimination against atheists *is* politically correct, though.

Mike

[Shaun @ Tru6]

He also made this statement:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

— President Theodore Roosevelt


Words to live by.

Why does the Right put President over Country?

[Wrecked944]

My fave Teddy R quote...

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."


"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[Don Ro]

Here's the unspoken message of today's America:
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C'mon in, the door's wide open. We are taxing the citizen-taxpayer to clear the way for you.
Bring your homeland nationalism/loyalty with you, that's fine with us.
A driver's license and someone else's job awaits you; freebies/discounts on virtually everything. No need to assimilate, learn the language, or pay taxes. Simply consume our goods so that we prosper.
We, the career politicians, special interests, and the entire business community, support you and want you here.
Disregard those others.
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ps Vote for us!

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Don Ro
Here's the unspoken message of today's America:

Alternate version:

Do you think those grapes are going to pick themselves?

Do you think we can get anything built without cheep under the table labor?

It's not just big business seeing the profits of undocumented workers fueling our economy - it's the guy next door too.

[Racerbvd]

I'm fully for punishing those who hire undocumented workers, hit the business where it hurts, fine them much more than they would pay a full time documented workers. If they still don't learn, lock em up.

[Tobra]

I don't think the guy next door to me is employing any illegal aliens, but I could be wrong.

Man, this thread took a big left turn pretty quick.

I think perhaps the fellow who initiated the thread may have been referring to the Travailles de France.

The Right does not put the President before the country, or they would not have impeached that lying, disbarred misogynist from Arkansas(Ironic he is too crooked to be a member of the Arkansas Bar, but not to be President)

The Left puts their own interests ahead of everything else, so I don't suppose either side can point fingers without reproach.

[Wrecked944]

Silly me. I thought this was going to be a thread about Roosevelt quotes.

[Jeff Higgins]

One of my favorite heroes from our past. The short, ugly, nearsighted, stuttering little bastard never would have made it in politics today. Too bad; we need his kind more than ever today.

If you ever get a chance to read some of his books, do so. I have several he wrote about his hunting exploits that are priceless.

Not many realize he pretty much stocked the Smithstonian's African exhibits with all their flora and fauna. He took his son Kermit on safari, in the grand old style of such, shortly after his presidency. Guided by none other than Frederick Courtney Selous himself; quite a man in his own right. Fought in the British Navy, I believe in WWI when in his sixties. Killed in action. But I digress.

Men like Roosevelt and Selous are still out there. They just don't seem to seek public office anymore. Why has our government reached such a state that these men are no longer attracted to it?

[RKC]

I really like Teddy Roosevelt, but don't kid yourselves that he was popular then within political circles: he wasn't wanted by most of the corrupt party hacks back then either. Kind of the same position John McCain is in now, or Winston Churchill was 75 years ago. No large organization (Democrats, Republicans, General Motors, etc.) wants an orginal thinker, or tolerates them for long. Emerson and Self-Reliance, you know? Those kinds are the type to start a party, a philosophy or a company, but they are not company men.

Teddy Roosevelt was cleaning house in NY, and angering the local hacks, and some in the Republican party thought a good way to get rid of him was to get him to be a VP running mate. That way he'd be out of NY poltics, but without any power. Only an assassin's bullet (McKinley) brought him to power.

There was even a Senator (Hannah, I think) who said of this Republican maneuver "Don’t you realize there is only one heartbeat between that madman and the White House?.”

It is true enough to say that only freak accidents or terrible dangers bring us great leaders (Roosevelt, Lincoln). But hey, that just means that every cloud has a silver lining. Thank God we live in times peaceful enough to endure a Clinton or a Bush, our present wars and threats notwithstanding.