Famous quotes containing the words cherokee and/or chief:
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“‘Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)