"The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued……" — Samuel Eliot Morison

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• In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled… — Charles Kendall Adams
• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum
• I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed… — John Henrik Clarke
• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course. — Lee Trevino
• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am… — Ruben Dario
• Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency. — Adolf Hitler
• Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more… — Bertrand Russell
• It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these… — Benjamin Disraeli
• One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the… — Daniel C. Peterson
• [The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on… — Russell Means

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