 I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. The politician who bids for the Irish or German vote, or the Irishman or German who votes as an Irishman or German,...  THE AMERICANISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Page 99by HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 392 pages
...remains foreign, in language or spirit, is doomed. But I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and...merely because that American happens to have been born in Ireland or Germany. Know-nothingism, in any form, is as utterly un-American as foreignism.... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 544 pages
...remains foreign, in language or spirit, is doomed. But I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and...merely because that American happens to have been born in Ireland or Germany. Know-nothingism, in any form, is as utterly un-American as foreignism.... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 394 pages
...wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, con-v viction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. The politician...merely because that American happens to have been born in Ireland or Germany. Know-nothingism, in any form, is as utterly un-American as foreignism.... | |
 | 1902 - 624 pages
...remains foreign, in language or spirit, is doomed. But I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and...merely because that American happens to have been born in Ireland or Germany. Know-nothingism, in any form, is as utterly un-American as foreignism.... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 394 pages
...remains foreign, in language or spirit, is doomed. But I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and...merely because that American happens to have been born in Ireland or Germany. Know.-nothingism, in any form, is as utterly un-American as foreignism.... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1910 - 250 pages
...which its possessors style cosmopolitanism. — Ibid. spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed <* creed or birthplace. The politician who bids for the...merely because that American happens to have been born in Ireland or Germany. Ibid. One may fall very far short of treason and the unlesirable Citizen... | |
 | 1917 - 578 pages
...and Ohio Educational Monthly. erect monuments to perpetuate these sentiments. — William McKinley. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. — Theodore Roosevelt. American civilization will imprint its flag upon the hearts of all who long... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1919 - 156 pages
...that all men are brothers, and that the Nation is merely an extension of the family. — Habberton. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose — not of creed or birthplace. — Roosevelt. Municipal government should be entirely divorced from party politics. — Parkhurst.... | |
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