Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

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An Overruling Providence seemed to interpose its hand between Clara Barton and the perils of war and epidemic alike, for a high and splendid purpose. Pawtucket (R. I.) Times.

If Almighty God gives a man a cowardly pair of legs, how can help their running away with him? A. Lincoln.

Cowards die many times before their deaths

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Shakespeare.

For others Clara Barton will be perfectly fearless.

Dr. L. N. Fowler (Phrenologist.)

I have no fear of the battlefield; I have large stores but no way to reach the troops. Clara Barton.