Celebration Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of…

— Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

— Rush Limbaugh

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

— Chauncey Depew

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

— James Thurber

Those that clamor loudest for Columbus to be erased from the pages of American history do so far more because of their hatred for…

— Tom Tancredo

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“This, then, was the Old World on the eve of Columbus’s departure in 1492. For almost half a millennium Christians had been launching hideously…

— David E. Stannard

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I can't even imagine how many indigenous people Columbus would have murdered if he didn't get Columbus Day off.

— Anonymous

People come up to me and say, 'thanks for choosing Columbus, thanks for believing in us, it means so much to us.' And that…

— Johnny Gaudreau

The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was…

— Woody Harrelson

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of…

— Timothy Garton Ash