Preston Brooks was a famous Politician from USA, who lived between August 5, 1819 and January 27, 1857. He/she became only 37 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 6 quotes who is written / told by Preston.
6 Famous quotes by Preston Brooks
"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 was answerable there and not here"
"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"
"If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power"
"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"
"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"
