What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

I don't make friends based on how big their pockets are or how well connected they are

Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.

O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!

Faith comes out of the heart not the head.

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.