Preston Brooks's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Politician
Nation: American
Biography of Preston Brooks
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.
Tags: Future, History, TimeIf I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
Tags: Him, Power, WhyBut if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
Tags: Committed, Here, HouseI 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.
Tags: Good, Opinion, PersonalThey 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.
Tags: Against, Law, Seems