Christopher Columbus Quotes

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• Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in…
• The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
• Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for…
• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky,…
• Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out…
• The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and]…
• I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion…
• It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess,…
• A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers…
• I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who…
• I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain…
• Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.
• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers…
• I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of…
• The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look…
• I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my…
• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was…
• "Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal…
• Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
• It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who…

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