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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).
SUBJECTS: Death