You say that I desire only to rule or ruin... I planned to do neither, but I did endeavor to put before the country a platform of principles, and to inaugurate an organization, which will sooner or later, succeed in crushing our monopolies, and speculators in the necessaries of life such as grain, by whom the farmer, producer, and the laboring men, the consumers are alike robbed. 

Benjamin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy Fearless Life

Elizabeth D. Leonard