Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote

We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and daughters—from all the earth. Sam Gompers from England, Andrew Carnegie from Scotland, Albert Einstein from Germany—and Booker T. Washington and Al Smith—Marconi and Caruso—men of all nations and races and estates—they have made us what we are.


Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)


We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and...

We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and...

We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and...

We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and...