“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. . . . Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. . . .
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities . . .”

Addressing the Knights of Columbus, Teddy Roosevelt, 10.12.15