Florence Ellinwood Allen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
-- 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

#Judging #Office #Honor
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen

#Glowing #Liberty #Generations
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
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen

#Umpires #Judging #Action
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen

#Conspiracy #Bloody
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 #Politics #May
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen

#Justice #Endeavor #Attainment

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

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