39 Quotes by Clara Barton

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    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.

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    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 of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

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    It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

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    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 well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

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    I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

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    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 warm in my veins.

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