When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
![“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 and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/jeffrey-rosen-13180_abstraction_when-i-was-in-law-school-i-was-taught-th_1879201.jpg)
![“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 opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/600/jeffrey-rosen-13180_convincing_what-is-so-inspiring-about-louis-brandei_927824.jpg)
![“But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately as possible just thinking of communicating to readers who might want to learn about this great thinker and be inspired by him as I was.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/098/jeffrey-rosen-13180_be-inspired_but-as-i-wrote-the-book-louis-d-brandeis_1810406.jpg)
![“[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0eb/jeffrey-rosen-13180_century_louis-brandeis-is-writing-directly-to-us_1899853.jpg)
![“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 the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f3/jeffrey-rosen-13180_anniversary_louis-brandeis-really-inspired-me-to-wri_110490.jpg)
![“[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb3/jeffrey-rosen-13180_balance_louis-brandeis-improves-the-prose-he-sim_3049711.jpg)
![“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 start with the paradigm case, which in the case of the Fourth Amendment was these general warrants or writs of assistance, but you define it at a level of abstraction…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aeb/jeffrey-rosen-13180_abstraction_i-d-say-that-louis-brandeis-practiced-a_73138.jpg)
![“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. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da1/jeffrey-rosen-13180_behalf_he-s-louis-brandais-so-suspicious-of-big_113363.jpg)
![“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 idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/950/jeffrey-rosen-13180_backgrounds_they-said-ok-nine-louis-brandeis-s-is-to_526142.jpg)
![“Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/494/jeffrey-rosen-13180_great-music_basically-louise-brandeis-was-a-jefferso_603281.jpg)
![“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 for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6c/jeffrey-rosen-13180_able_it-s-unfortunate-that-louis-brandeis-was_603580.jpg)
![“[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0fd/jeffrey-rosen-13180_20th-century_louis-brandeis-at-the-age-of-57-decided_726968.jpg)
![“For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8db/jeffrey-rosen-13180_age_for-louis-brandeis-you-know-ethnicity-an_755034.jpg)