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1. "Whatever insults my State insults me." ~ Preston Brooks
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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." ~ Preston Brooks
5. "If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power." ~ Preston Brooks

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