Blackbeard Quotes

“I have only one last thing to say, and it’s something I’ve said before and will no doubt say again. We are truly Robin Hood’s men, and we need to continue to act like it. We take from the wealthy merchants and give to ourselves as poor sailors not because we are heartless bandits, but because that is what is fair. Because that is what is just in a world where only a minority of men take the most, and the rest of us get only what trickles down through their fat, greedy fingers. They vilify us, these scoundrels they do, but there is but a single difference between them and us. They rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own bravery. And that is why we are free princes, and have as much authority to make war on the whole world as those who own or command a hundred sail of ships at sea or an army of one-hundred-thousand strong in the field. My conscience—and the laws of men and Christian charity—tell me this, men! And I swear by it or I be not Black Sam Bellamy!”
― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America

“Captain Hornigold’s words were chosen well,” began the young pirate captain diplomatically. “At first glance, they seem to make sense. That is until one begins to look at the larger picture here. We don’t serve no king or country, and we don’t live in fear of the law—on land or the high seas. What we stand for is fairness in the face of an unfair world. A world dominated by the high and mighty. We’re not the bandits here. The real thieves are the royal pigs in their powdered wigs, the titled landowners, the wealthy merchants, and the cruel captains that lash a seaman for taking a simple ladle of water from a barrel in the heat of a summer sun. Make no mistake, they are the real thieves. They are the ones who should answer before the courts, not us.”
― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America

“Because that’s what you’ll be doing if you vigorously be raising the black flag against King George. Mark my words, that’s what you’ll be doing.”
― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America

“Damn the crafty royal politicians, slaveholders, and greedy merchants—damn these men who take most everything in this world and leave only the crumbs for the rest of us. And equally damn those who serve them for they are but a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference: they rob the poor under the cover of law, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. That is why we are freebooters, mates: to shake up this bloody hypocrisy and make the world right for all men!”
― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America

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― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America

“The presence of the outlaw state was disrupting the slave societies of the Caribbean, and Thache and Hornigold delighted in the reversal of fortune. If a man was willing to sign the articles, join a crew, and work hard as a crew member, it didn’t matter to them if he was black, brown, yellow, or white in their eyes. Regardless of the color of his skin, he drew an equal share of the spoils and had equal voting rights, pure and simple, as long as he remained a consistently competent seaman who pulled his fair load on deck.”
― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America

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― Samuel Marquis, Blackbeard: The Birth of America