Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
368
AUTHOR:
John James Ingalls (1833–1900)
QUOTATION:
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
ATTRIBUTION:
Senator JOHN JAMES INGALLS, eulogy on the death of Representative James N. Burnes, January 24, 1889.—A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls, p. 273 (1902).
