Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or barton:
“So universal and widely related is any transcendent moral greatness, and so nearly identical with greatness everywhere and in every age,—as a pyramid contracts the nearer you approach its apex,—that, when I look over my commonplace-book of poetry, I find that the best of it is oftenest applicable, in part or wholly, to the case of Captain Brown.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“[On being told that “every woman should stand with bared head before Susan B. Anthony”:] Yes, and every man as well.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)