Captain James Cook — "Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as…"

"The natives of New Holland may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans."

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

"These savages understand nothing but force, and it is by fear alone that they can be kept in check."

"They are the natural, and in the strictest sense of the word, the legal possessors of the several Regions they inhabit. . .. They may naturally and justly attempt to repell intruders, whom they may ap…"

"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teac…"