I seem to remember Roosevelt once addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution, opening 'My fellow immigrants...'
In message <p0433010eb626469253d5@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>A (non-American) friend writes...
>
>>Can you think of a quote, by a United States President (rooseveldt,
>>or someone)
>>that I can use to keep away the dogs. I am delivering a lecture on
>>Globalisation
>>next week[...]
>>
>>However, my hosts and other speakers are pretty conservative and I am cloaking
>>my opening argument in a kind of "well you might not like what I am about to
>>say, but I represent the right to voice
>>unconventional/unorthodox/South/left/dissident views" then I want to asy, as
>>XXXXXX said: something that will shut them up and get them to listen. I find
>>that mainstream USians are easily placated when you use one of theirs as
>>justification.
>
>Can anyone help out?
>
>Doug
-- James Heartfield