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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.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here. Big deal.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United StatesAsk any Indian.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.

Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore,
At the rim of a far-flung sky.

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

His bark
The daring mariner shall urge far o’er
The Western wave, a smooth and level plain,
Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.