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 (18581919), Kansas City Star (April 27, 1918).
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.
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01/18/2004 5:53:19 PM PST by
Thorin
To: Willie Green
BTTT!
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