Cherokee Nation Businesses

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee, nation and/or businesses:

“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)

“Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)