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, […]

The country’s honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either capacity would have rendered the other of small value.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… 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. This is just as true of the man who puts ‘native’ before the hyphen as of the man who […]