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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

I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I think [Louis] Brandeis challenges all of the current justices. As he said, "If we would guide by the light of reason, we must…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

“No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.”

— George W. Bush

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

“The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed…

— Immanuel Kant

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have…

— Rex Stout