Everett Dirksen

Also known as Everett M. Dirksen, Everett McKinley Dirksen

American politician (1896–1969)

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The Republican report of U.S. Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, Minority leader for the first session, Eighty-ninth Congress
Source material for speeches
Senate committee staffing
Republican review of the first session, 86th Congress
The Republican report of U.S. Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois

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Discography

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“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
“When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.”
“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.”
“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.”

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