"I will make this land a grave or a treasury."

"No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success."

"I would rather be feared than loved."

"Since I have come to this land, I have not eaten bread, nor drunk wine, nor slept in a bed, nor have I been able to hear Mass, nor have I seen a priest."

"If they resist, kill them all; God will know his own."