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Letter "E" » Everett Dirksen Quotes
«I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
flexible, unbending, unbends, unbent
«There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.»
«A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.»
«The oil can is mightier than the sword.»
«Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
asylums, cemeteries, incompetents, static
«When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies»
«During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
campaign, candidate, political campaign, wondering
«We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
agony, biennial, convulsion, convulsions
«The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
constitutionality, match, persuasion, with compassion
«When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
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