“ The German who makes this country the home of his choice must soon learn to understand — and most do learn it immediately — that henceforth this is his country; that his welfare and that of his posterity are closely bound up in the welfare of this Republic; that it shall never enter the minds of him or his countrymen to form here a separate nationality; that as a German-born he has no exceptional rights or duties or interests, but only the rights and duties and interests of the American citizen ”

“ Not only, as he remarks, is it foolish to give up that which Americans of intelligence expend time and money to acquire, but apart from this consideration, it is an essential service to the social and political life of America that the elements brought to it from other shores, in response to the invitation of our free institutions, should be developed and assimilated. ”

“ The energy, independence, and aspirations of the strongest in each of the nationalities that make up the American nationality belong to it by inheritance and development. It needs and can make good use of all. ”