Your Flag and My Flag: Patriotic Addresses (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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We furthermore state that we fully com prehend the meaning of true Americanism. It means that we recognize no king but Jus tice. We bow to no crown save Liberty. We have no Kaiser but our conscience. When we set foot on the shores of New York we ceased to be subjects; we became citizens.

If any one would look down on the immi grant, he would have to despise the Pilgrim Fathers who came here in the Mayflower. He would have to belittle the pioneers who in all times and climes have blazed the trail of progress. I recall the pointed remark made recently in the United States Senate: A sponge never migrates; it is born and dies upon the same rock, but the game fish finds its way to the headwaters of every creek and river of the earth. Day before yesterday we were all foreigners; today we are all Americans.

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