Clara Barton Country Quotations

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 Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.