Clara Barton Quotes

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. - Clara Barton

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

The surest test of discipline is its absence. - Clara Barton

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. - Clara Barton

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. - Clara Barton

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! - Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? - Clara Barton

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

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

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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