Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then… — Jeffrey Rosen Americanism 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 Be inspired Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen Abolitionist Copy Share Image
And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes… — Jeffrey Rosen America Copy Share Image
He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice… — Jeffrey Rosen Amendments Copy Share Image
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric… — Jeffrey Rosen Agree 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 Anxious 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… — Jeffrey Rosen Abstraction 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… — Jeffrey Rosen Abstraction 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,… — Jeffrey Rosen Backgrounds 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 Brilliant 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 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)
![“And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/809/jeffrey-rosen-13180_america_and-he-louis-brandeis-talks-to-his-young_2000912.jpg)
![“He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice Scalia and Justice Alito about do you need a physical trespass into the home or onto the carriage in order to trigger the values of the Fourth Amendment.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f54/jeffrey-rosen-13180_amendments_he-louis-brandeis-would-have-not-had-any_1710416.jpg)
![“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)
![“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)
![“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)
