Columbus Quote by Anonymous

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the…

— Bill Nye

“Therefore, good-bye Columbus? Balzac once suggested that all great fortunes are founded on a crime. So too all great civilizations. The European conquest of…

— Charles Krauthammer

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply.…

— Simon Jenkins

Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into…

— Tom Tancredo

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans emerged and began to extend themselves into the broader world of Africa and Asia during…

— J.A. Rogers

“Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other…

— Charles C. Mann

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

— Sean Connery

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that…

— Jon Stewart

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only…

— John Henrik Clarke

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the…

— Pierre Boulle