Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The job of creating a program for the Nation's welfare is, in some respects, like the building of a ship.

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

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

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