Conquistador Quotes

“...fortune always favors the bold.”
― Buddy Levy, Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

“It would be better not to know how to write. Then one would not have to sign death sentences.”16”
― Buddy Levy, Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

“As the last of the great ships fell below the level of the horizon and disappeared into the bottom of the dark gulf waters, Cortés stood with his men. He had staked everything, his very life and all of theirs, on the future. He later reflected that they now had “nothing to rely on save their own hands—and the certainty that they must either win the land or die in the attempt.”18 There would be no turning back.”
― Buddy Levy, Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

“solder”
― Buddy Levy, Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs