Quotes of Immigration - somelinesforyou

“ It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Now we ask our federal governments to help us too, to help us with their principal responsibilities, immigration, drug smuggling. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. ”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“ Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ”

- Roy Hattersley

“ The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. ”

- James Baldwin

“ The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources. ”

- Jon Kyl

“ Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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