Scarcely a quarter of the earth is yet civilized, and that quarter not beyond the probabilities of war. Clara Barton.
General Sherman was right when, addressing an assemblage of cadets, he told them “war was hell!” Take it as you will, it is this;—whoever has looked active war full in the face has caught some glimpse of regions as infernal as he may ever fear to see.
Clara Barton.
Only time, prolonged effort, national economics, universal progress and the pressure of public opinion could ever hope to grapple with the existence of war, the monster evil of the ages.
Clara Barton.
I have studied the massing of forces and scanned from point to point the old battle-grounds of Marengo and Jena and Waterloo and the Magenta and Solferino and it has seemed to me that these armies had a fairer field and a better chance than ours, in the Civil War. Clara Barton.
War may be a great harmonizer, but it is not a humanizer.
Clara Barton.
That which is won by the sword must be held by the sword, whether it is worth the cost or not. Clara Barton.
If there be any power on earth which can right the wrongs for which a nation goes to war, I pray it may be made manifest.