Red Cross Societies

Famous quotes containing the words red, cross and/or societies:

    “Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “When the cross blue lightning seemed to open
    The breast of heaven, I did present myself
    Even in the aim and very flash of it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)