Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – André Gide
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.” – Vine Deloria,Jr.
He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe. – Lamartine
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. – Margot Asquith
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
Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us. – Edmund Arthur Helps
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. – Arthur Goldberg
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. – Author Unknown
He gave the world another world. – George Santayana
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. – John Fiske
With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. – Edward Everett
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. – Author Unknown
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde
He stands in history as the completer of the globe. – John Sterling
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. – Robert Orben
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. – Author Unknown
