Francisco Pizarro — "I have not come for such reasons. I have come to take away from them their gold …"
I have not come for such reasons. I have come to take away from them their gold and their silver, and to do with them what I will.
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A reported declaration of his intentions in Peru, often cited by historians.
Date: 1532
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