| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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). |
| SUBJECTS: | Race |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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