America Quote by Joseph Jacobs

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

— Bill Henson

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for…

— Morgan Matson

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

— Joseph Conrad

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

— Jay Weatherill

If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century…

— Cynthia Tucker

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of…

— Ralph Peters

Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000…

— Louis Pasteur

The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.

— Ian McHarg

“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

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force…

— George Gilder

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities…

— Sadiq Khan