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deachgo Champion Author Chicago Posts:34,633 Points:4,240,225 Joined:May 2001	Message Posted: Apr 25, 2007 5:23:56 PM Ignore deachgo Report Abuse "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1919.

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"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1919.

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benjy Champion Author Chicago Posts:8,587 Points:1,785,845 Joined:Nov 2003	Message Posted: May 19, 2013 5:33:36 PM Ignore benjy Report Abuse Amen...
Markel Champion Author Chicago Posts:4,826 Points:476,930 Joined:Aug 2003	Message Posted: May 19, 2013 11:13:15 AM Ignore Markel Report Abuse Reading all these quotes from Lincoln makes me wonder at how much things have changed. What a great man he was!
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 18, 2013 5:25:28 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 17, 2013 5:49:24 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 16, 2013 5:48:56 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 15, 2013 5:56:35 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 14, 2013 5:53:50 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 13, 2013 6:03:27 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 12, 2013 7:20:10 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 11, 2013 6:03:55 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 10, 2013 5:55:14 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” - Abraham Lincoln
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 9, 2013 5:21:30 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abraham Lincoln [Edited by: John... at 5/9/2013 6:22:30 AM EST]
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 8, 2013 5:53:13 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” - Mark Twain
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 7, 2013 5:32:09 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” - John Adams
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 6, 2013 5:37:47 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson [Edited by: John... at 5/6/2013 6:38:24 AM EST]
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 5, 2013 1:49:13 PM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 3, 2013 6:09:21 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values,” “They disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents. This would be a bad investment, since it would be empty.” - Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 1, 2013 5:57:05 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength." - Jane Byrne [Edited by: John... at 5/1/2013 6:58:23 AM EST]
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 30, 2013 6:02:45 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it’s a Chicago sound born and bred." - Ralph Metcalfe
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 29, 2013 5:46:48 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "I warn you, Jedediah, you’re not going to like it in Chicago. The wind comes howling in off the lake and gosh only knows if they ever heard of lobster Newburg." - Orson Welles as Citizen Kane
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 28, 2013 5:14:49 PM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Going to Chicago was like going out of the world…" - Muddy Waters
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 25, 2013 5:45:19 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Nor is it out of character that Chicago’s grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake, from waste thrown into Lake Michigan - a 75-year-old dump." - Pat Colander
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 24, 2013 6:00:40 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary." - Oscar Wilde, February 13, 1882
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 23, 2013 6:02:04 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation." - Lincoln Steffens, (Chicago) "The Shame of the Cities," 1904
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 22, 2013 6:05:08 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.” - Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 21, 2013 8:45:21 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue." - George F. Will
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 20, 2013 1:41:47 PM Ignore John... Report Abuse "In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold." - Gary Washburn
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 19, 2013 5:56:02 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government." - Harold Washington
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 18, 2013 5:56:57 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio." - Mel Torme
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 16, 2013 5:51:56 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "It’s a 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes; it’s dark and we’re wearing sun glasses. Hit it!" - The Blues Brothers
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2013 8:25:19 PM Ignore John... Report Abuse "You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue." - Helmut Jahn
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 12, 2013 5:56:43 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "You know what they say about Chicago. If you don’t like the weather, wait fifteen minutes." - Ralph Kiner
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 11, 2013 5:52:01 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt." - Studs Terkel, 1978
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 10, 2013 5:48:30 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago." - Ashley Montagu "The American Way Of Life," 1967
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 9, 2013 5:40:56 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport. In Chicago not only your vote counts, but all kinds of other votes–kids, dead folks, and so on." - Dick Gregory, Dick Gregory’s Political Primer, 1972
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 8, 2013 5:44:18 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago." - Gene Siskel
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 7, 2013 11:02:53 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders." - Carl Sandburg, "Chicago," 1916
Markel Champion Author Chicago Posts:4,826 Points:476,930 Joined:Aug 2003	Message Posted: Apr 6, 2013 11:15:29 AM Ignore Markel Report Abuse >>"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America." >>- Charles Merriam, unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 1911 I guess not much has changed in 100+ years, except that corruption has increased.
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 6, 2013 10:01:32 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America." - Charles Merriam, unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 1911
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 5, 2013 5:52:46 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement." - Groucho Marx, pressing his hands into the cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 4, 2013 5:52:17 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "It’s one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline." - Will Rogers, June 22, 1930
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 3, 2013 5:52:22 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I’m sick of the job–it’s a thankless one and full of grief. I’ve been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor." - Al Capone, 1927
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 2, 2013 5:48:16 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town." - Fred Fisher "Chicago," (1922)
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Apr 1, 2013 5:43:24 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -Anti-smoking spokesperson Brooke Shields
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Mar 30, 2013 9:05:07 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "When I was a boy, I was told anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it." -Clarence Darrow
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Mar 29, 2013 5:51:51 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Mar 27, 2013 5:56:03 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse .“Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program” - Nancy Pelosi
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Mar 22, 2013 5:30:41 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.” - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago 1955-1976
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Mar 21, 2013 5:58:13 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse “Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats” Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago 1955-1976
John... Champion Author Chicago Posts:39,902 Points:2,872,985 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Mar 19, 2013 5:54:28 AM Ignore John... Report Abuse "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." -- Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator, Vice President, 22 October 1959”