Benjamin Butler
I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.Collection: War
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.Collection: Selfish
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?Collection: Air