Robert Toombs Quotes:
Ocupation: Former U.S. Senator
Life: July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885
Birthday: July 2
Death: December 15
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
source: Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
topic: Rights, Hands, Long, Forbearance, Vindication
