"I should be judged as a captain who……" — Christopher Columbus
"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 are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz."
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50 Quotes by Christopher Columbus
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The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and…
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so…
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A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and…
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy…
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction…
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Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.
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