Benjamin Harvey Hill (September 14, 1823-August 16, 1882) was an American statesman and orator from Georgia. He opposed secession prior to the Civil War, later became a U.S. Senator. In a tribute to Robert E. Lee, Benjamin Harvey Hill expressed:
<He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar without his ambition, a Frederick without his tyranny, a Napoleon without his selfishness, and a Washington without his reward.> 1823BH001
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1823BH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Benjamin Harvey Hill, in a Tribute to Robert E. Lee. Thomas Nelson Page, Robert E. Lee, (1911). John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 592.