Power & Society Sayings

64 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 64 authors

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I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased.

— Christopher Columbus 1492
War & Conflict

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.

— Francisco Pizarro 1532
Money & Business

The king has sent me, and I must obey.

— Vasco da Gama 1497
Power & Leadership

I came to get rich, not to till the soil like a peasant.

— Hernan Cortes 1519
Money & Business
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