Iroquois Property

Famous quotes containing the words iroquois and/or property:

“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may equally be said to have a property in his rights.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)