Where's Teddy???

[shooter2]

From Theodore Roosevelt...

Our present immigration laws are unsatisfactory. We need every honest and efficient immigrant fitted to become an American citizen, every immigrant who comes here to stay, who brings here a strong body, a stout heart, a good head, and a resolute purpose to do his duty well in every way and to bring up his children as law-abiding and God-fearing members of the community. But there should be a comprehensive law enacted with the object of working a threefold improvement over our present system. First, we should aim to exclude absolutely not only all persons who are known to be believers in anarchistic principles or members of anarchistic societies, but also all persons who are of a low moral tendency or of unsavory reputation. This means that we should require a more thorough system of inspection abroad and a more rigid system of examination at our immigration ports, the former being especially necessary.


We sure could use someone like Teddy today. Sadly, I do not know of anyone remotely close to him today. Does anyone else?

[9.3X62AL]

Gotta love Teddy Roosevelt's take on most issues. Plain truth, plainly spoken.....and does it EVER piss off liberals, the media, and other denizens of the make-believe world their ilk insists on inflicting upon us.

[NVcurmudgeon]

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism..... 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." TR 1912

President Roosevelt may have prophetically feared today's "in your face" assertion of foreign nationalism in our midst.

Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado seems to be an ideological successor to TR in this area, but he is being largely ignored by both the Tweedledum and Tweedledee parties.

[rmb721]

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.






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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

[fatnhappy]

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

[Huffmanite]

Reading Teddy's words reinforces why I consider him one of our greatest presidents. A retired history teacher.

[KCSO]

"They come here without learning out language...
They do not respect our religion...
They compose nearly one fifth of the population and if not stopped they will take this county away from us.."

Juan Almeda in a letter to Santa Anna 1835