A Little History of the United States Quotes

“Ancient writers had told tales of a golden age before history, where “men lived simply and innocently”—no laws, no quarrels. The people on this island seemed to be folk from such a time. “They go as naked as when their mothers bore them,” Columbus reported, and were so meek and friendly, they were “ready to give the Christians all that they possess.”
― James West Davidson, A Little History of the United States