Top 3 Quotes by 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.

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

Fire, Effort, Revolution

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.