Civilization Quote by Chauncey Depew

It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.”

— Ph.D Alan Axelrod

Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.”

— Amit Ray

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps

“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.”

— José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

“IT’S ARBOR DAY! LET’S HUG TREES AND EAT CAKE! COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!, etc.”

— John Green

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

— Chauncey Depew

“Let’s assume it was Christopher Columbus’s “destiny” to discover the New World, and let’s pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible…

— Chuck Klosterman

“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

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put…

— Ogden Nash

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got…

— Ronald Reagan