speaking English they just assumed English was the official language of America and did not give it much thought. The leaders of the United States never decided against making English the official language, but in the 1790s they did decide against a multilingual government. Theodore Roosevelt said, “The one absolute certain way of bringing a nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. We have but one flag. We must also learn one language and that language is English.” Making English the official language does not mean America would become an “English only Movement,” ("Common Language Quotes"). People would still be free to speak their own languages in their private and social interactions. Official English would only
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