It is not the critic who counts.

Teddy roosevelt quotes hyphenated american. During world war i the issue arose of the primary political loyalty of ethnic groups with close ties to europe especially german americans and also irish americans. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. And there ought to be no room for them in this country.

Theodore roosevelt on immigrants and being 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. Theodore roosevelt on immigrants and being an american are we slow learners or what. As true today as it was in 1915 hyphenated americanism speech excerpts former president theodore roosevelt october 12 1915 in an address to the knights of columbus carnegie hall nyc.

Theodore roosevelt quotes arena. Quotes authors t theodore roosevelt there is no room in this. The man who calls himself an american citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic.

The men who do not become americans and nothing else are hyphenated americans. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

The term hyphenated american was published by 1889 and was common as a derogatory term by 1904. Nativism and hyphenated americanism 1890 1920.