Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Florence Ellinwood Allen

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Last updated on November 16, 2024.

Florence Ellinwood Allen was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

American - Judge | March 23, 1884 - September 12, 1966

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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

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

Florence Ellinwood Allen

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

Florence Ellinwood Allen

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

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

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

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

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.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Florence Ellinwood Allen

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