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Charles Pinckney Biography

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825) American soldier and statesman. His famous quote: "War be it, then; millions for defense, Sir, but not one cent for tribute!"

Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 745.

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