More From Everett Dirksen
- "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Power
- "All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."― Francis Thompson
- "I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’"― Abigail Adams
- "I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."― Alexander the Great