Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I therefore commend to the Congress that the bequest of Mr. Justice Holmes be not covered into the general fund of the Treasury.

Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying that we live by symbols.

Clearly he thereby sought, with a generous emphasis, to mark the full measure of his faith in those principles of freedom and justice which ...

Our generation will not soon forget, as the learned the world over will long remember, his extraordinary achievements as judge, as historian...