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Clara Barton
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“Let me go, let me go.”
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“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.”
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“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.”
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“Men have worshiped war till it has cost a million times more than the whole world is worth, poured out the best blood and crushed the fairest forms the good God has ever created. — Deck it as you will, war is — 'Hell.'”
Clara Barton, U.S. nurse
(1821 - 1912)