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The press is the representative of the people.

Gen. Joseph R. Hawley.

The newspaper is the immediate recorder and interpreter of life.

Henry Irving.

Three Thousand newspapers voiced the public opinion of the nation; thousands no doubt escaped us.

Editor—Clara Barton In Memoriam(1912).

The press shapes the fortunes of the world and makes and unmakes with a breath.Clara Barton.

The American press has been to me, to my assistants, and our work, a band of faithful brotherhood.Clara Barton.

Human progress had evolved a “Press” whose lever moved the world.Clara Barton.

Among the dark hours that came to us in the hopeless waste of work and war on every side, the strong sustaining power has been thePressof the United States.Clara Barton.

I thank the press of my country for its unwavering and genuine kindness for all the years it has dealt with my name.

Clara Barton.

Through all of good report or ill; contradictory, perplexing, incomprehensible, the one thing that has not only sustained but astonished me has been the loyalty of the American press.

Clara Barton.

Clara Barton is to America what Florence Nightingale is to us. The American Civil War created her, and determined the whole course of her life. There isthat which war, and nothing less, can do with a woman. It can make her, right away, what we may without irreverence call superwoman; and, having done that, it can set her to hard administrative work, to reform and organize great matters of national welfare; and it can keep her at that high level to the end of her days. Only, it must have her all to itself; she must give up everything that she was doing.

It was a wonderful life. She was inspired to save lives. Providence, very wisely, chose her for its purposes, not because she was an intellectual woman but because she was a pure flame of sympathy. Not peace, but war, made her what she was.

London (Eng.) Times,January 27, 1916.

London (Eng.) Times,

January 27, 1916.

Among the countless thousands, in her lifetime, that Miss Barton numbered as her friends, the following have been culled; and Miss Barton had not only letters thanking her for her work from the following but also enjoyed their personal friendship:

Presidents of the United States

Vice-Presidents of the United States

Secretaries of the Interior

Secretaries of the Navy

Secretaries of the Treasury

Secretaries of State

Secretaries of War

Secretaries of Agriculture

Postmasters General

Chief Justices U. S. Supreme Court

The Army

General Officers U. S. Volunteers

The Navy

Sovereigns of Europe

Miscellaneous

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