The professors of every form of hyphenated Americanism are as truly the foes of this country as if they dwelled outside its borders and made active war against it. Once it was true that this country could not endure half free and half slave. Today it is true that it can not endure half American […]

We have not got room for hyphenated Americans: German-Americans; Irish-Americans; we want Americans pure and simple.

A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts ‘Native’ before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the […]

Those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.

From his own standpoint, it is beyond all question the wise thing for the immigrant to become thoroughly Americanized. Moreover, from our standpoint, we have a right to demand it. We freely extend the hand of welcome and of good fellowship to every man and woman, no matter their creed or birthplace, who comes here […]

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.

If I were asked to name the three influences which I thought were most dangerous to the perpetuity of American institutions, I should name corruption in business and politics alike; lawless violence; and mendacity, especially used in connection with slander. We Americans are children of the crucible. Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, […]

Our place as a nation is and must be with the nations that have left indelibly their impress on the centuries… Those that did not expand passed away and left not so much as a memory behind them. The Roman expanded, the Roman passed away, but the Roman has left the print of his law, […]