"We are becoming so accustomed to millions and……" — Everett Dirksen
"We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary."
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Everett Dirksen
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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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More Accustomed Quotes
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't…
— Terrence Trammell
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not…
— Brother Lawrence
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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