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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 546 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | Here was buried Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS JEFFERSON, epitaph he wrote for himself and wanted on his tombstone.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, p. 396 (1899). It is on his gravestone at Monticello. |
| SUBJECTS: | Epitaphs |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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