Florence E. Allen Quotes

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

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Action, Judge

• 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 E. Allen

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Judge, Honor

• 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 E. Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization, Movement, Generations

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

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Bloody

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Whether

• 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 E. Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Judge, Make

• 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 E. Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Represented, Fact, Women

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

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Effect, Appraise

• Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Liberty

Florence E. Allen (9)

Birth:	23rd March, 1884
Death:	12th September, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge

About

Florence Ellinwood Allen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She was an American judge. 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. She earned her Master's Degree in Political Science in 1908. She also earned a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 1913.

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