"I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government."

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I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

— Clara Barton