Cherokee Territory

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee and/or territory:

“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)

“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)