Preston Brooks Quotes
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Whatever insults my state insults me,
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by…
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But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I…
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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them…
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If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
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They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the…
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