Preston Brooks Quotes

#1. If Preston Brooks with his attack had brought him near death, was it not his old friend Appleton who had observed, "When good Americans die they go to Paris"?

David McCullough

#2. 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

#3. What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

Thomas Kuhn

#4. The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#5. I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Isaac Rosenberg

#6. 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.

Preston Brooks

#7. I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you.

JCrov

#8. 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

#9. Whatever insults my State insults me.

Preston Brooks

#10. Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Glenn Greenwald

#11. I don't care about his quest for redemption. I don't want him anywhere
near Quinn," Alaric snarled. "I will leave for St. Louis as soon as we
adjourn this meeting."

Alyssa Day

#12. What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron's, however, wasn't the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Suddenly I'm not half the girl
I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me ...
From me to you out of my electric devil ...

Anne Sexton

#14. 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

#15. Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.

Keith Brantly

#16. 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

#17. Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Clara Mamet

#18. I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

Zayn Malik