I Quote Others Only In Order The

We Took Advantage Of [the Indians'] Ignorance And Inexperience To Incline Them The More Easily Toward Treachery, Lewdness, Avarice, And Every Sort Of Inhumanity And Cruelty, After The Example And Pattern Of Our Ways.

It Is The Part Of Cowardice, Not Of Courage, To Go And Crouch In A Hole Under A Massive Tomb, To Avoid The Blows Of Fortune.

All We Do Is To Look After The Opinions And Learning Of Others: We Ought To Make Them Our Own.

There Is Nothing So Extreme That Is Not Allowed By The Custom Of Some Nation Or Other.

It Is Putting A Very High Price On One's Conjectures To Have Someone Roasted Alive On Their Account.