Florence Ellinwood Allen Quotes

• Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Liberty, Generations, Next

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• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Home, Umpires, Cities

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• The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Justice, Endeavor, Attainment

  Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University

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• Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Glowing, Liberty, Generations

  Florence Ellinwood Allen (1940). “This Constitution of ours”

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• It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Long, May, Politics

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• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Florence Ellinwood Allen (1940). “This Constitution of ours”

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• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Judging, Office, Honor

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• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Umpires, Judging, Action

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• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Conspiracy, Bloody

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