I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

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

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.