“For heaven’s sake, discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum!”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON, on traditional British judicial attire
“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
—WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
“I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.”
—WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
“[I]n my present life, I don’t remember that I ever was president.”
—WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, after being appointed to the Supreme Court