"For my part, I will go to the south, and he who has the courage to follow me, let him come. He who has not, let him return to Panama."

"Let no one stand in my way, for I will crush them."

"I have done more in this land than any man before me."

"There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian."

"I would rather have one room full of gold than a hundred of their temples."