After having lunch with Judge Learned Hand, Holmes entered his carriage to be driven away.  As he left, Judge Hand’s parting salute was:

 

   “Do justice, sir, do justice.”

 

Holmes ordered the carriage stopped.

 

“That is not my job,” Holmes said to Judge Hand.  “It is my job to apply the law.”

 

 

Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (New York: The Free Press, 1990), p. 6