Benjamin Butler Quotes

• I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

  Benjamin Butler

  War, Rights, History

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• A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

  Benjamin Butler

  Selfish, Men, Failing

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• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  Benjamin Butler

  Air, Storm, Lightning

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