| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 368 |
| AUTHOR: | John James Ingalls (18331900) |
| 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). |
| SUBJECTS: | Death | | |
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