Indian Independence

Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or independence:

    We had not gone far before I was startled by seeing what I thought was an Indian encampment, covered with a red flag, on the bank, and exclaimed, “Camp!” to my comrades. I was slow to discover that it was a red maple changed by the frost.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)