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Everett Dirksen

"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."

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"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."

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"We have been through this is 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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"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."

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"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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"The oil can is mightier than the sword."

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