Clara Barton Quotes

• 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, will fail to do.

  Clara Barton

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  Tags in Simple, Opposites, Fortune

• 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 suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  Clara Barton

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  Tags in Happiness, Movement

• The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Blood

• 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 to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

  Clara Barton

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  Tags in Done, Support, Passing

• 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 have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

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  Tags in past, Better, Improve

• 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 man’s pay.

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Sometimes

• 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 nurse them.

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Fight, Soldiers

• Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Everybody, Nobody

• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Soldier

• The surest test of discipline is its absence.

  Clara Barton

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  Tags in Discipline, Surest

• 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 can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Waiting, Strong, Soldiers

Clara Barton (11)

Birth:	25th December, 1821
Death:	12th April, 1912
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Nurse, Teacher

About

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She worked as a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, and as a teacher and patent clerk. She was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. In 1864 she was appointed by Union General Benjamin Butler as the "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James.  She is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home.

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