Quote by Christopher Columbus
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. – Christopher Columbus

Other quotes by Christopher Columbus

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. – Christopher Columbus

Category:
Morning
Read Quote

These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons… they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven. – Christopher Columbus

Category:
People
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Men
category

A little philosophy inclineth mans mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth mens minds about to religion. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Men

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. – Dorothy Day

Category:
Men

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Men

Men should strive to think much and know little. – Democritus

Category:
Men

Random Quotes

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. – Proverb

Category:
Doubt

An unwatched pot boils immediately. – H.F. Ellis

Category:
How True!

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. – Andre Breton

Category:
Freedom

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. – Henry Miller

Category:
Perspective