Edith Cavell Quotes

• Patriotism alone is not enough.

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  Peace   War   Enough  

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• I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

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  Shrinking   Strange   No Fear  

  Edith Cavell's last statements prior to her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, www.firstworldwar.com. 1923.

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• Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

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  Doors   Space   Refugee  

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• Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

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  Hurt   People   Unhappy  

  The Economist (p. 107), October 15, 2010.

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• Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

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  Hatred   Patriotism   Bitterness  

  Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.

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• Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

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  Hate   Views   Hatred  

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• I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.

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  Saved   I Can  

  "Edith Cavell". Helen Judson, The American Journal of Nursing (p. 871), July 1941.

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