"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."
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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."