In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
About This Quote

In the United States, we do not have a place for hyphenated Americans. This is a quote by former presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John McCain from a 2001 interview where he talked about immigrants to the United States. Hyphenated Americans are those who are citizens of the United States as well as citizens of other countries.

In other words, they can be considered "double citizens." In this interview, McCain was referring to those immigrants who came to the U.S. from other countries not as citizens of other countries, but as citizens of the country they were born in.

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