Admiration Quote by José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

“[Y]ou accuse these people of ingratitude; let me, one of the people who suffer, defend them. Favors rendered, in order to have any claims…

— José Rizal

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

“It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what…

— Rick Yancey

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

“No thoughts had I of anything, Or at least that's what I thought; I even thought I couldn't think, But now I think I…

— Christopher Miller

“Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean and established…

— Patrick Mendis

“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

“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed…

— George Gamow

“At ten o'clock we arrived in Aspinwall, or, as it is always called there, Colon, this being the real name of the place, given…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all…

— Simón Bolívar

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which…

— Thomas Jefferson