America Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him,…

— Bill Cowher

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

“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

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

“Christopher Columbus and his brothers were no different from many of the Spanish adventurers of the time. They were a roughhewn lot, who wrote…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely populated as…

— Howard Zinn

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people…

— James W. Loewen

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

— Pablo Neruda

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky