Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
927
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION:
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.”
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS JEFFERSON, commenting on judges’ apparel.—Benjamin Harrison, The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America, p. 320 (1897).
