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"I want to make this the most perfect and complete monumental building possible, it must... have all the beauty, charm and dignity of the Lincoln Memorial, and all the practical qualities of a first-rate office building -- a combination rather difficult to achieve, but nevertheless possible."
-- Architect Cass Gilbert, January 1929
"The place is almost bombastically pretentious, and thus seems to me wholly inappropriate for a quiet group of old boys such as the Supreme Court of the United States."
-- Justice Harlan F. Stone, May 1935 |