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  • There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. 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.

    Speech in New York, 12 October 1915, in 'Works', Memorial edition (1925) vol. 20, p. 457
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