"Since I have come to this land, I have not eaten bread, nor drunk wine, nor slept in a bed, nor have I been able to hear Mass, nor have I seen a priest."

"This land is rich, and we shall make it richer."

"Let them come, for I am ready."

"Gold is what we came for, and gold we shall have."

"For in the greatest extremity God ever fights for his own; and doubt not he will humble the pride of the heathen, and bring him to the knowledge of the true faith, the great end and object of the Conq…"