Clara Barton.
If there be any good wars, I will attend them.
Sir Philip Sidney.
That noble and numerous class of patriots who are brave with other men’s lives and lavish of other men’s money. Gladstone.
There never was a good war, nor a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin.
Don’t talk about war; we have done with war. The Peace of the world is the question now. Clara Barton.
WICKEDNESS OF WAR—SETTLES NO DISPUTES
Clara Barton was a patriot, but “not a war woman.” She had no sympathy with the religion such as was Odin’s, of the ninth century, which religion assured for him who had killed in battle the greatest number the highest seat reserved in the Paradise of the Valhalla; nor with the sentiment of the King of Denmark of that day, “What is more beautiful than to see the heroes pushing on through battle, though fainting with their wounds;” nor with the sentiment of that same king’s boast, “War was my delight from my youth, and from my childhood I was pleased with a bloody spear.”
Princes were privileged to kill,