After
having lunch with Judge Learned Hand, Holmes entered his carriage to be driven
away. As he left, Judge Hands 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