Benjamin Butler Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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
“I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.”
-- Benjamin Butler

#War #Rights #History
“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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