Columbus quotes
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense."
"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
"The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."
"I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that."
"Columbus gave the world another world."
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"Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has."
"Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?"
"If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round."
"The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'."
"Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon."
