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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1844
AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION: I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
ATTRIBUTION: Vice President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 10, p. 175 (1903).

Carved at the base of the dome, interior of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.
SUBJECTS: Tyranny