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Preston Brooks
American
Politician
Born:
Aug 5
,
1819
Died:
Jan 27
,
1857
Committed
Had
Me
Self-Respect
Submit
You
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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
Good
Self-Respect
Own
Good Opinion
My Own
Had
Failed
Countrymen
Perhaps
Calling
Opinion
Question
Offender
Account
Personal
Should
Resent
Injury
Whatever insults my State insults me.
Preston Brooks
Me
Whatever
State
Insults
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.
Preston Brooks
Future
Time
Me
Self-Respect
History
Country
Strangers
Down
Unkindness
Tell
Must
Worthy
Shall
Written
Pass
Sir
The History Of
Them
Requires
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