Columbus Day Quotations
Columbus Day in the United States is the celebration of the day Columbus first arrived in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
These quotes are about the day Columbus came and the events following.
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.
Charles Kendall Adams
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
He gave the world another world.
George Santayana
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
Edmund Arthur Helps
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.
Emilio Castelar
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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