Judah Philip Benjamin

“It is a time that we should look upon this matter of slavery in a new light.”

“We are fighting for our liberty, for our own government, and for the right to manage our own affairs.”

“The South has been slandered, vilified, misrepresented, and held up as a people deficient in all the high qualities which elevate and ennoble a nation.”

“The slaves, armed, will be a great reinforcement; and we can do with them what we have never been able to do with any other class of our population—we can make them fight.”

“Never have a partner.”

“To be a Jew is my destiny.”

“It is a principle of the law of nations that the belligerent has a right to deprive his enemy of all assistance whatever in carrying on the war.”