Using your knowledge of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, what might be the irony and ultimately the purpose of this particular quote from the speech?
History shows that Queen Elizabeth loved worldly goods and lived in high style, so her
purpose must be to bury that fact in order to appear humble.
History shows that Queen Elizabeth was in fact very greedy, so her purpose must be to
continue hoarding resources all for herself
History shows that the simpire was under huge debt at that time, so her purpose must be
to evade any responsibility of paying it off.
History shows that Parliament at the time was overspending its
budget, so her purpose
must be to lightly chastise their governance

since most of current immigration into the u.s., both legal and illegal, is coming from latin america. it would be very difficult to imagine or rationalize a country my fellow citizens are trying desperately to flee into, would pose a threat to my prosperity or freedom. since the u.s. has a long history of intervention, but no record of permanent occupation, i would not feel oppression is the main objective.  

the largest free trade nation, along with the largest gdp in the world wanting to expand it's economic policy on us, and including us, could only be positive. the u.s. government has no interest in, or way of simply forcing american culture on us. and has no track record of it. other nations that adopted american social culture, or "americanization" did so voluntarily, mainly through the choice of allowing american businesses and u.s. citizens to come into their nations, as free operatives.

sam houston basically made tx he fought for anrew lead troops in the battle of san jacinto and then became president and james polk