Justin Winsor Quotes

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

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

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

America is now a space-faring nation ... a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered the New World.

Since the discovery of Columbus, there has been no event of equal importance to the human race.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

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.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

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

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

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.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.