I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

- Benjamin Butler

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

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 …

- Benjamin Butler