Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or barton:
“I do not believe in erecting statues to those who still live in our hearts, whose bones have not yet crumbled in the earth around us, but I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other man whom I know. I rejoice that I live in this age, that I am his contemporary.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... it has always proved that the grandeur of a nation was shown by the respect paid to woman.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)