"There is no force so powerful as an……" — Everett Dirksen
"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
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17 Quotes by Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen has 17 quotes on this site.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and…
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When I feel the heat, I see the light.
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We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years,…
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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds…
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for…
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When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
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Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
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I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit…
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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my…
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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