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, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality...There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. |
—Theodore Roosevelt |
I try to give both sides of an argument and let you figure things out on your own.