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

And woman’s slander is the worst.

Tennyson—The Letters.

’Tis slander “whose breath

Rides on posting winds and doth belie

All corners of the world.” Cymbeline.

If the end brings me out all right what is said against me won’t amount to anything. Abraham Lincoln.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln.

Speak not evil of the dead. Chilo.

They that slander the dead are like envious dogs that bark, and bite, at bones. Zeno.