Preston Brooks Quotes
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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 calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks
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Author Details:
Type:
Politician Quotes
Category:
American Politician Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 5, 1819
Date of Death:
January 27, 1857
Nationality:
American
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Benjamin Franklin
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Quote Keywords:
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Countrymen,
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Account,
Calling,
Countrymen,
Failed,
Good,
Had,
Injury,
Offender,
Opinion,
Own,
Perhaps,
Personal,
Question,
Resent,
Self-respect,
Should,
Such
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All Preston Brooks Quotations:
But if I had committed a...
But, sir, they have written me...
I should have forfeited my own...
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They had no right, as it...
Whatever insults my State insults me.
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