Preston Brooks: 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.

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


		Name: Preston Brooks Type: Politician Nationality: American Birth: August 5, 1819 Death: January 27, 1857

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