"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."

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

"I have seen no inland part of any country so barren as this."

"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."

"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…"