When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level.… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share
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