Clara Barton is the best clerk, either man or woman, I ever had in my office. Mr. Mason, Commissioner of Patents.
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. Brissot.
Only the machinery and plans of Heaven move unerringly and we short-sighted mortals are, half our time, fain to complain of these. Clara Barton.
It is possible for the wisest even to build better than he knows.
Clara Barton.
Who furnished the Armies; who but the Mothers? Who reared the sons and taught them that liberty and their country was worth their blood? Who gave them up and wept their fall, nursed them in their suffering and mourned them, dead? Clara Barton.
There is none to give woman the right to govern herself, as men govern themselves by self-made and self-approved laws of the land.
Clara Barton.
Only the Great Jehovah can crown and anoint man for his work, and he reaches out and takes the crown and places it upon his head with his own hand. Clara Barton.
Whenever I have been urged as a petitioner to ask equal suffrage for women a kind of dazed, bewildered feeling comes over me.