"That meant that you would begin the study of American life and history; that you would open your mind and heart to all of its influences; that you would try to understand its ideals and purposes and love them; that you would try to build up inside of your self a whole group of feelings for the United States the same as you felt toward the fatherland when you left Germany. There have been a good many Germans before me in the last month. It has been an impressive part of the trial. They have lived in this country, like yourself, 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and they had to give their evidence through an interpreter. And as I looked at them and tried as to them, there was written all over every one of them, 'Made in Germany.'
"American life had not dimmed that mark in the least. It stood there as bright and fresh as the inscription upon a new coin. I blame my country. We urged you to come. We welcomed you; we gave you opportunity; we gave you land; we conferred upon you the diadem of American citizenship, and then we left you. We paid no attention to what you have been doing." 