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

Utica (N. Y.) Observer.

I know there is a God, and he hates injustice. A. Lincoln.

There were no heroes, there were no martyrs.

Bulwer-Lytton.

Great women belong to history and self-sacrifice.

Leigh Hunt.

I am in the Garden of Gethsemane now, and my cup of bitterness is full to the overflowing. A. Lincoln.

Let us have faith that right makes might. A. Lincoln.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better, or equal, hope in the world? A. Lincoln.

Beneficence breeds gratitude, gratitude admiration, admiration fame, and the world remembers its benefactors.