Christopher Columbus Quotes

To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Anything for gold and experience.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If gold was found anywhere on the globe, that region would shortly be governed by English speakers.

I have not come here for such reasons. I have come to take away their gold.

And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice, To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia,, Earth's only paradise

The country itself is the best I have ever seen for producing all the products of Spain... But what I am sure of is that there is not any gold nor any other metal in all that country

For richest Jems and gainfull things most Merchants wisely venter; Deride not then New England men, this Corporation enter;

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the bottom.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

The key word in profiteering is profit.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.