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 that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
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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
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 Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
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Whatever insults my State insults me.
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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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It was a personal affair, and in taking redress into my own hands I meant no disrespect to the Senate of the United States or to this House.
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