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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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927 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: “For Heaven’s sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.” |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, commenting on judges’ apparel.—Benjamin Harrison, The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America, p. 320 (1897). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Judges |
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