Clara Barton Quotes

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things…
• The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
• An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human…
• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand,…
• I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and…
• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
• A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder…
• The surest test of discipline is its absence.
• The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
• I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a…
• Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less…
• I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.
• If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they…
• My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.
• This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I…
• Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins,…
• My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application…
• People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They…
• What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was…

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