Divine Intervention in Human Affairs Quotes
After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. : Joseph ben Matthias
Benton hated John Calhoun, and when the latter died, a reporter asked Benton if he cared to make any comment about his departed Senate colleague. Benton replied:
As a slave holder himself, this was a dramatic statement. Slavery was immoral, God’s justice will not be on the white slave owners side, a slave revolt or other event could occur and change things radically. One great puzzlement of American history has been why Jefferson, who wrote so eloquently against slavery and predicted the disaster that would come. would himself keep his slaves and never free them as George Washington did. Some argue that he was so broke financially, that he could not afford to free them.
Later, Voltaire made the phrase famous. Sometimes the origin is attributed to Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, 1611-1675, a French General.
