Red Cross Societies

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

    “If the red slayer think he slays,
    Or if the slain think he is slain,
    They know not well the subtle ways
    I keep, and pass, and turn again.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)