American identity

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...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.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Assimilation American identity American politics

Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

Source

Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Address to the Knights of Columbus. 12 Oct. 1915, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA.