"I had the ambition to not only go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."

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

"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…"

"I have taken possession of this land for His Majesty King George III, despite the natives' claims."

"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…"