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Clara Barton Quotes

«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.»
«The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.»
«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.»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | About: Danger | Keywords: compelled, feed, nurse, soldiers
«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.»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse)
«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.»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | Keywords: soldier, soldiers, The Front
«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.»
«The surest test of discipline is its absence.»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | Keywords: surest
«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!»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | Keywords: elect
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | Keywords: opposites, prudence