’Tis slander “whose breath Rides on posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world.” CYMBELINE. If the end brings me out all right what is said against me won’t amount to anything. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Speak not evil of the dead. CHILO. They that slander the dead are like envious dogs that bark, and bite, at bones. ZENO. A poor lone woman. SHAKESPEARE. Done to death by slanderous tongues. SHAKESPEARE. Speak me fair in death. SHAKESPEARE. And thereby hangs a tale. SHAKESPEARE. The greater the truth the greater the libel. LORD MANSFIELD. The greatest friend of truth is Time. COLTON-LACON. Truth is the daughter of Time. MAZZINI. Truth is Truth. TENNYSON. There is nothing so powerful as truth. DANIEL WEBSTER. Truth pierces the clouds; it shines like the sun and, like it, is imperishable. NAPOLEON. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. GEORGE ELIOT. All error, false hate, malice, evil company and their kindred, are sure to find their true value, and though apparently successful are doomed to die at last. CLARA BARTON. The Almighty has his own purposes. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. We never know the uses the Master will put us to. His designs are known only to himself. CLARA BARTON. When you come to the certain conclusion that only truth and justice are eternal, you will find it easy to wait and let the Heavens rule. CLARA BARTON. Nothing but truth lives. CLARA BARTON. My Lord will help me. JOAN OF ARC. God shows me the way I shall go. JOAN OF ARC. We are all lost! We have burned a saint. TRESSART, Secretary to Henry VI. Would that my soul were where I believe the soul of that woman is. JOHN ALESPIE, PETER MAURICE. (Two of the judges that condemned Joan of Arc.) First in the list of American great women is Clara Barton; first in her ideals; first in her achievements. In America, she ranks with Jeanne d’Arc, of France, to whom the English are now (1818) placing a monument in Manchester. CORRA BACON-FOSTER, Author, _Clara Barton, Humanitarian_. Joan of Arc was rather tall, well shaped, dark, with a look of composure, animation and gentleness. GUIZOT. It is not true, I think, that Miss Barton has ever done anything to disentitle her to a conspicuous recognition in the Red Cross Building. EX-SECRETARY OF STATE RICHARD OLNEY (in 1917). (The eminent American selected by the “Remonstrants” in 1903, and unanimously approved by the Red Cross, to name the members of the Red Cross Proctor Committee—to investigate the “charges.”)