"This city is the greatest and the finest ever seen in this country or anywhere in the Indies... We can assure your Majesty that it is so beautiful and has such fine buildings that it would be remarkab…"

"I would rather die rich than live poor."

"I did not come to convert, but to conquer."

"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."

"This land is ours by right of discovery."