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“Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”

— Joseph Heller

“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered…

— Patrick Marnham

“That seductive aroma of unchecked power was more than enough to commit genocide and mass sexual assault while unashamedly carrying their nation’s flag draped…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.”

— william donaldson

“If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today…

— Anonymous

“...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...”

— Mohsin Hamid

I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and…

— Christopher Columbus

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott

“If you know the country he said then you will be a wild colonial boy forever”

— Peter Carey

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

“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.”

— J. H. Elliott