President Theodore Roosevelt lived an eventful life ... Perhaps you've seen it before; while it's a quote attributed to Roosevelt in 1907, it was actually written on Jan. 3, 1919 -- just ...

The following is one of my favorite thoughts on the issue of immigration. It's from President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919, 10 years after his presidency.

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates ...