"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."

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

"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…"

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

"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."