Quotes 24 Apr

Throughout most of our nation's history, immigrants
adopted the language, laws, and common customs of the
host country.  The term "melting pot" was a descriptive
metaphor, indicating that the potentially divisive attitudes
and customs of the old country would be left behind as
the newcomers blended into a new commonality of purpose.
But today it seems that the pot is no longer melting.
Some incoming groups defy cultural assimilation.  They
cluster into enclaves and demand special concessions
for their ethnic customs, beliefs, languages, and, in
some cases, even their laws.
According to former House Intelligence Committee
chairman Rep. Pete Hoekstra, assimilation is an
essential component to immigration:
 "What we need to do is make sure everyone coming
     into the United States understands who we are
     and that we are founded on Judeo-Christian
     values, that there is one rule of law and that's
     what's on the books and it's not Sharia and we
     need to make sure we don't engage in the same
     kind of mistakes in Europe where they did not
     engage in assimilation." -David Jeremiah (1941-    )
      _Is This The End?_ [2016], "The Bleeding Of Our Borders"

Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
-George Washington, Farewell Address 1796