Letters from Mexico Quotes

“hypocrisy which is a smug vice of cowards”
― Hernán Cortés, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526

“Precept is ever plentiful but example is the better teacher,”
― Hernán Cortés, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526

“recognising defeat as a momentary check, but never accepting it as final.”
― Hernán Cortés, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526

“If the heathen are no longer brought by compulsion into the light, we make them pay a heavy indemnity for their privilege of sitting in darkness, and, whenever their opposition to the dissemination of Christian teaching amongst them emerges from quiescence into activity, a warship is ready to bombard their coasts while troops are at hand to annex a province.”
― Hernán Cortés, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526