Roosevelts short speech

Roosevelt's short speech 1907 "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant whocomes 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 anoutrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, birthplaceor origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact anAmerican, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiancehere. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn'tan American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, andthis excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty andcivilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation towhich we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that isthe English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and thatis a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907