Top 9 Quotes by Florence Ellinwood Allen

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.

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

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

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

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Glowing, Liberty, Generations

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

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

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

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

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