Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"For him law was an instrument of just relations between man and man."

"We also mark for posterity our pride in his faith in American democracy, his confidence in the power of our legal institutions to realize, when rightly used, the highest American ideals."

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

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