Who said “The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came…”?

“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”

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

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”

“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”

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

“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”

“The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.”

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

“Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.”

“Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.”

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.”