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Teddy Roosevelt and the best speech ever made by a President of the United States
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:06 pm
Hyphenated-Americans
Teddy Roosevelt: Hyphenated-American speech
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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all …
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, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic …
There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." - President Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt: Hyphenated-American speech
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Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:09 pm to Frankie Yale
At the time it was considered an insult and not something people embraced
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:10 pm to jonnyanony
quote:Hyphenated-Americans are an insult to Americans.
At the time it was considered an insult and not something people embraced
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:11 pm to Frankie Yale
But people today self identify as such. Back then it was usually other people applying it to immigrants.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:22 pm to jonnyanony
quote:To Hell with those people.
But people today self identify as such
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:25 pm to Frankie Yale
That is a good speech, and I agree with every word. It is not within 100 miles of the best speech by an American President. For example:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:27 pm to jonnyanony
quote:He makes it clear he's not talking about that
Back then it was usually other people applying it to immigrants
quote:
When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 7:32 am to Frankie Yale
William Henry Harrison had the best Presidential speech ever.
It lasted so long he died from the illness he received because it lasted so long in the cold weather.
It lasted so long he died from the illness he received because it lasted so long in the cold weather.
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