Indian Origin Settled

Famous quotes containing the words indian, origin and/or settled:

“I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“No sane person should believe that something is ‘subjective’ merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”
—Hilary Putnam (b. 1926)