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“On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.”
Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
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“I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.”
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“We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.”
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“Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.”
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“Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.”
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“There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
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“The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.”
Source : William Falconer, John Mitford (1836). “The Poetical Works of William Falconer”, p.59, London, W. Pickering
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“I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.”
Source : "Q&A: John Elkington". Interview with Jessie Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November 2008. 
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“Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.”
Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (2002). “Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition”, p.54, Penguin
