Emanuel Celler famous quotes

03-28-2025

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Political #Lawlessness #Problem
For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Years #Betrayed #Way
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Being Different #Different #Panic
The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Pace #Irritated #My Family
The study of music was a family interest.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Study #Interest
If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Holocaust #Way #Found
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.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Hands #Law #Practice
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Heart #Men #Honest
The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Europe #Sea
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Usa #Growth #United States
We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Party #Character #Fighting
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Book #Home #House
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Men #Personality #Challenges
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
-- Emanuel Celler
I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Morning #Wine #School
As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Hate #Europe #Circles
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Party #People #Desert
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Believe #Tactics #Communism
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Men #Roots #Hatred
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Philosophy #Inspiration #Adventure
The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Russia #United States #Population
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Ambition #Sight #Smell
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Immigration #Unjust #Restriction
I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Taken #Color #Rose
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Rights #Growth #Bills
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Government #Color #White
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Girl #Grandmother #Catholic
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Political #Grandfather #United States
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
-- Emanuel Celler

#Father #Wine #School
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Elephants #Competition #Politics

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