Florence Ellinwood Allen Quotes

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

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.

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

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

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

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

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.

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.