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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 882
AUTHOR: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
QUOTATION: Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
ATTRIBUTION: President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, remarks before the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1938.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938, p. 259 (1941).

FDR is often quoted as having addressed the DAR as “my fellow immigrants.” The above words are believed to be the source.
SUBJECTS: Immigrants