Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Judah P. Benjamin

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Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC was a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith.

American - Politician | August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884

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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

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

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