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To: sinkspur; Thorin
Thorin: "One could only imagine what Teddy Roosevelt would have thought of one of his successors addressing Americans in a foreign language."

sinkspur: " Exactly. You can only imagine because you don't know."

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), Kansas City Star (April 27, 1918).


59 posted on 01/18/2004 1:08:18 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
Thanks for the great TR quote! Of course, he is also the President who warned us about the danger posed to America by unlimited immigration--the danger of us becoming nothing more than a "polyglot boarding house of nations." It seems, though, that that is precisely what Bush wants.
82 posted on 01/18/2004 5:53:19 PM PST by Thorin
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To: Willie Green
BTTT!
96 posted on 01/18/2004 8:18:37 PM PST by m18436572
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