Named Canning

Famous quotes containing the words named and/or canning:

    Late in the afternoon, we rode through Brewster, so named after Elder Brewster, for fear he would be forgotten else. Who has not heard of Elder Brewster? Who knows who he was?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A steady patriot of the world alone,
    The friend of every country but his own.
    —George Canning (1770–1827)