These speeches on "Americanization" deal with the character of American nationality and the country's influence on the rest of the world. Woodrow Wilson's speech is addressed to new American citizens. Theodore Roosevelt speaks of "hyphenated Americans": "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans....I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans. Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen, as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States...." 
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