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