America Quote by Martin Waldseemüller

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

— Pedro Domingos

“The Olmec civilization was truly the first in Mesoamerica.”

— Michael D. Coe

“A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed…

— Mike Harding

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores…

— Henry David Thoreau

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

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

— W. L. George

“In the idea we recognize our true homeland.”

— Julius Evola