Judah Philip Benjamin

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

“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.”

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

“Never have a partner.”

“To be a Jew is my destiny.”

“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.”

“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.”