Christopher Columbus — "I am a most wretched man; I am stripped of my honor, my wealth, and everything I…"

"They have no iron or steel weapons, nor are they capable of using them."

"Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others."

"And I say that Your Highnesses ought to determine to make them Christians, for I believe that if they begin, in a short time they will be finished, and will have great revenues and dominion, and all t…"

"I should believe that they would easily be made Christians, because they have no religion."

"I believe that in these lands there are many things which are not known, and which are not seen, and which are not heard, and which are not known, and which are not seen, and which are not heard."