Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1576
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION:
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS JEFFERSON, “Autobiography,” The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 1, pp. 72–73 (1903).
