America Quote by Arthur Helps

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

— Mordecai Richler

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can…

— Sigmund Freud

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future…

— Thomas Paine

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

— Joseph Conrad

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Christopher Columbus and his brothers were no different from many of the Spanish adventurers of the time. They were a roughhewn lot, who wrote…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

“The New World's purpose was to be The Old World's Eden - a place of dreams to wipe clean the mistakes and sins of…

— Stewart Stafford

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif…

— Christopher Darden