Country Quote by Fidel Castro

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they…

— John Steinbeck

“When the natives questioned Cortés as to why the Spaniards had such a passion for gold, the conquistador answered, ‘Because I and my companions…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements…

— Peter Shaffer

“So El Dorado is no’ a man.” In a soft tone, Lucia said, “She’s La Dorada, the Gilded Woman. History had it wrong. Really…

— Kresley Cole

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern…

— Neil Peart

“As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast—the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to…

— Tom Reiss

Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found…

— Victoria Finlay

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

— James Clavell

Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold…

— Rebecca Solnit

The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted…

— T. H. Watkins

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who…

— V. S. Naipaul

“Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In…

— Howard Zinn