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 […]
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I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves… too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions […]
The American look is not limited to people of Caucasian ancestry. In northern California, where I grew up, there was a large Japanese population, many of whom I knew well. The father and mother would be short, square, wide in the hip, and bowlegged, their heads round, the skin quite dark, the eyes almond with […]
We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Americanization… did not cleanse America of its ethnic minorities, it cleansed its minorities of their ethnicity.
There’s only four things we (Americans) do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery.
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 […]
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100% American as 99% an idiot. And they adore me.
We’re not some crowd of pious, sniveling, red-green Europeans trying to make the world safe for boutiques! We’re not some swarm of Confucian social engineers who would love to watch the masses chop cotton for the next two millennia! We are a nation of hands-on cosmic mechanics!
We have not got room for hyphenated Americans: German-Americans; Irish-Americans; we want Americans pure and simple.
