Everett Dirksen Quotes (11+)

Enjoy the best Everett Dirksen Quotes. Quotations by Everett Dirksen (U.S. Senator)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

Service is the highest calling.

The future belongs to the young.

We must never be afraid to compromise for the greater good.

Words are the most powerful tool a leader has.

Leadership is the ability to see things as they are, and not as they should be.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, until the circumstances change.

The only thing that is constant is change.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times

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Everett Dirksen (1896–1969) was an influential American politician who served as Senate Minority Leader and was key to passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.