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.
From Everett Dirksen
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
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