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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 709
AUTHOR: James Francis Byrnes (1879–1972)
QUOTATION: The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
ATTRIBUTION: JAMES F. BYRNES, Speaking Frankly, p. 7 (1947).

Byrnes served in Congress 1911–1925 and 1930–1941.
SUBJECTS: Government