Cherokee Towns

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee and/or towns:

    “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)

    “With a laugh,
    An oath of towns that set the wild at naught,
    They bring the telephone and telegraph.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)