" But ," as Sumner shrewdly said, " the President himself is his own worst counsellor, as he is his own worst defender.

For example, it was claimed that the phrase appeared in a 1790 court record from Sumner County, Tennessee, discovered in 1859 by a Tennessee historian named Albigence Waldo Putnam, in which Andrew Jackson apparently said " proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for an uncalled good, which was O. K .".

Bolan is still cited by many guitar-centric bands as a huge influence ( Joy Division / New Order's Bernard Sumner has said that the first single he owned was " Ride a White Swan ".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that he delivered speeches " like a cannoneer ramming down cartridges ", while Sumner himself said that " you might as well look for a joke in the Book of Revelation.

Douglas said to a colleague during the speech that " this damn fool Sumner is going to get himself shot by some other damn fool.

He later said that he intended to challenge Sumner to a duel, and consulted with fellow South Carolina Representative Laurence M. Keitt on dueling etiquette.

Brooks said that he concluded that since Sumner was no gentlemen, it would be more appropriate to beat him with his cane.

In July 1863, as decisive campaigns were fought at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Republican senator Charles Sumner re-dedicated his speech The Barbarism of Slavery and said that desire to preserve slavery was the sole cause of the war:

Longfellow's friend Charles Sumner said he had met a woman who " has read ' Evangeline ' some twenty times and thinks it the most perfect poem in the language ".

Lord Sumner said " Taylor's case is the foundation stone of this part of the law ".

He said, " Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully.

Eccles was famously rebuked by Congresswoman Jessie Sumner ( R, IL ) during a House of Representatives hearing on the increasingly big-government, statist policies of the Roosevelt administration and the Federal Reserve, when she said, " you just love socialism ".

Sumner was said to be a talented and practical farmer, an excellent horseman, and great admirer of cattle.

:" A dying bed ," said he ( Sumner ), " is not the place for one dying to begin to attend to his religion and prepare for another world.

The opening minimum bid for a package purchase of the parks is $ 53. 25 million, Sumner said.

Sumner likened Butler to Don Quixote and said Butler: " has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him ; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight.

Now the question is out .” David M. Potter, whose own credentials as a Lincoln scholar gave his words authority, said Donald's biography of Charles Sumner portrayed, " Sumner as a man with acute psychological inadequacies ” and exposed Sumner's " facade of pompous rectitude.

Sumner said that he had to put the " Ceremony " rehearsal tape as sung by Curtis through a graphic equalizer to transcribe the lyrics.

" Opportunities to acquire a well-respected brand, that is so treasured by players do not come along everyday ," said Tom Sumner, Vice President and General Manager of Pro Audio & Combo Division, Yamaha Corporation of America.

After the departure of Mel Karmazin in 2004, Sumner Redstone, who served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, decided to split the offices of President and Chief Operating Officer between Moonves and Freston.

Brooks then decided to " punish " Sumner with a public beating.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston, and before the Big Dig the only access from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels.

Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts wanted the Republican Party to advocate constitutional amendments to prohibit slavery and to guarantee racial equality before the law.

The trail began at Young County, Texas and passed along the Pecos River, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and Colorado before ending in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The heavily wooded swamp that became Sumner was part of the Choctaw Nation before being settled by many families, including the Sumners.

* While being a U. S. protectorate from 1905 to 1941, the Dominican Republic had first various native regimes, then US military Governors 29 November 1916 – 24 July 1922, and just before it again had the first of its own Presidents on 21 October 1922, a single U. S. High Commissioner, Sumner Welles, who served from 1922 – 1924.

Arguing before the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Sumner noted that schools for blacks were physically inferior and that segregation bred harmful psychological and sociological effects — arguments that would be made in Brown v. Board of Education over a century later.

" As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks beat Sumner severely on the head before he could reach his feet, using a thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head.

Sumner then toured several countries, including Germany and Scotland, before returning to Washington where he spent only a few days in the Senate in December.

Before moving to Mississippi Sumner had served in the 22nd AL Volunteer Infantry, Company A in the Confederate States of America Army and was wounded during the operations before the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee the evening of December 31, 1862.

It was at Cornell where Sumner began his research into isolating enzymes in pure form ; a feat which had never been achieved before.

She later married Greg Sumner ( for political reasons ) but the marriage lasted only a few months before Abby moved to Japan.

Below that, to the west of Lake Tapps, the White River enters a broad floodplain and flows past the city of Pacific before emptying into the Puyallup River at Sumner.

Sumner suffered head trauma that would cause him chronic pain and symptoms consistent with what would now be called traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, and spent three years convalescing before returning to his Senate seat.

Her Darts capture a number of Athosians and Atlantis personnel, and she learns of Earth from Colonel Sumner before feeding on him.

The fansite GateWorld became a major franchise news site with special arrangements with MGM ; GateWorld's founder Darren Sumner was later hired to serve as a news editor for the official Stargate SG-1 magazine and to check Stargate comic books for continuity errors with the TV shows before publication.

She only attended one year of medical school before marrying one of her professors, Nobel Prize winner James B. Sumner, on July 10, 1915.

In 1955, Ms. Sumner joined the Eggert-Hatch river expedition, the purpose of which was to make the last films of the Green and Colorado River canyons before construction began on Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon dams.

Founder William Sumner Appleton was succeeded as Director by Bertram K. Little, Abbott Lowell Cummings and Nancy R. Coolidge before the title of the chief executive officer was changed to President, with Jane C. Nylander and now Carl R. Nold serving in that capacity.

According to Sumner, " Get Ready was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time.

Sumner believed that man could not abolish the law of “ survival of the fittest ” we could only interfere with it and produce the “ unfit ”.

The commissioners approved the rule without debate or comment, with the exception of Commissioner Sumner Pike who indicated approval of the rule by asking, " Well, we are against fraud aren't we?