Judah P. Benjamin Quotes

• It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

  Judah P. Benjamin

  Fire, Effort, Revolution

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• It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

  Judah P. Benjamin

  Character, Fire, Justice

  "The Emergence of Lincoln". Book by Allan Nevins, p. 387, 1950.

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• First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.

  Judah P. Benjamin

  Next, Firsts, Reminders

  "Judah Benjamin". Book by Simon I. Neiman, p. 207, 1963.

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