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Top 20 Clara Barton Quotes (2025 Update)

Clara Barton Quote: “The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”

1. “The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.”

2. “Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

3. “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”

4. “It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.”

5. “You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “Let me go, let me go.”

6. “Let me go, let me go.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.”

7. “This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.”

— Clara Barton

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Clara Barton Quote: “I founded the American Red Cross.”

8. “I founded the American Red Cross.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “The surest test of discipline is its absence.”

9. “The surest test of discipline is its absence.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.”

10. “People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.”

11. “Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.”

12. “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!”

13. “Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.”

14. “It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”

15. “What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?”

16. “I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.”

17. “My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.”

18. “I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “Long ago I added to the true old adage of “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business,” another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody’s business is my business.”

19. “Long ago I added to the true old adage of “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business,” another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody’s business is my business.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.”

20. “What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.”

— Clara Barton

Clara Barton Quote: “I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”

21. “I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”

— Clara Barton

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