Captain James Cook — "The natives are a cowardly and treacherous people, wherefore we must always be o…"

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

"we attempt to land in a peaceable manner, if this succeeds its well, if not we land nevertheless and maintain the footing we thus got by the Superiority of our fire arms, in what other light can they …"

"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…"

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

"Sauerkraut is of such excellent use at sea that it ought never to be omitted."