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Judah P. Benjamin
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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 (1811–1884) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the secession movement in the South (1860). Reported in Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln (1950), p. 387.
“First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.”
Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response when asked how he was able to maintain his substantial income. Reported in Simon I. Neiman, Judah Benjamin (1963) p. 207.
“It has come to the point where the North must exterminate us or agree to separation… The war may still go on for a long time. However, we count on the financial exhaustion of the North. I admit to you that we don't understand how the government's credit has been maintained up to now.”
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Recorded in: Conversation with French minister to the United States Baron Henri Mercier, April 1862, from the report subsequently made by Mercier to the Quai d’Orsay. Quoted in Case & Spencer, The United States and France: Civil War…