Benjamin Butler quotes
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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?”
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“I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.”
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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
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“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”
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Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2016). “The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812 (Complete)”, p.427, Library of Alexandria
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“Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.”
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