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
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. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
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.
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.
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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.
