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1896–1969 United States
Everett McKinley Dirksen (4 January 1896 – 7 September 1969) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
United States Anti-communists Politicians Also known as: Everett McKinley Dirksen
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
We have been through this 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.
Stronger than all the armies is an idea that's time has come. … The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!
There are gentle men in whom gentility finally destroys whatever of iron there was in their souls. There are iron men in whom the iron corroded whatever gentility they possessed. There are men—not many to be sure—in whom the gentility and the iron were preserved in proper balance, each of these attributes to be summoned up as the occasion requires. Such a man was Harry Byrd.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.
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"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
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