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There are those who end life feeling the future will nourish their cause. There are those also whose causes pass with themselves. Harry Byrd's cause belonged to the latter category.

— J. Harvie Wilkinson III Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics (1968)

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History values men as much for what they are for as for what they espouse. Let not its view of balanced budgets determine its judgment of Harry Byrd.

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