...before the alien gods whom our forefathers forsook. 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. No man is worth much to the commonwealth if he is not capable of feeling...

...not really become a European, he only ceases being an American, and becomes nothing." Again he said: "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction and purpose, not of creed or birthplace." We are concerned with the great drama of the present and the future. It forbids us to look at the future...

...MIXING — 1. Blue and yellow make green. 2. Yellow and red make orange. 3. Blue and red make purple. " Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace." THE PLEDGE TO THE FLAG I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States and to the Republic for which...

...high and brave type of spiritual life. — CONDUCT TEST OF BELIEF. CHAPTER X A GREATER, BETTER AMERICA "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace," said Roosevelt. Americanism amounted to a religion with him. To find parallels for his love of country,...

...high and brave type of spiritual life. —CONDUCT TEST OF BELIEF. CHAPTER X A GREATER, BETTER AMERICA "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace," said Roosevelt. Americanism amounted to a religion with him. To find parallels for his love of country,...

...outrage to fight an American political campaign with reference to questions of European politics. . . . "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. ... A Scandinavian, a German, or an Irishman who has really become an American, has the right to stand...

...descent. As for himself, "it would take seven hyphens," he would say, "if any one tried to hyphenate me." "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. . . . That man is the best American [70] who has in him the American spirit, the American soul." In...

...crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat." "True Americanism,," said Theodore Roosevelt, "is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace." "Ah, that certainly includes me, too," I said to myself, and sang joyously and prayerfully, "God bless...

...it when he said "we don't wish any hyphenated Americans," but his Americanism was available to all: "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace." Roosevelt insisted that nativism and Know Nothingism are "repugnant to true Americanism": no one who...

...hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals. Ibid. Americanism Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. "True Americanism," The Forum, April 1894 The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to...